Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond the Thirty Nine Steps - Hardcover

Macdonald, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851969985 ISBN 13: 9781851969982

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

A collection of edited essays on the novelist John Buchan (1875-1940), author of, among many other works, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1915), "Witch Wood" (1927) and "Sick Heart River" (1940). It considers Buchan's writing and reputation from the perspective of the twenty-first century and examines Buchan's major fiction and non-fictional writing.

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Synopsis

This is the first collection of edited essays on the novelist John Buchan (1875-1940), author of, among many other works, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1915), "Witch Wood" (1927) and "Sick Heart River" (1940). Over fifteen established scholars reconsider Buchan's writing and reputation from the perspective of the twenty-first century. "Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps" examines all Buchan's major fiction and non-fictional writing, and builds on an increasing interest from the academy in positioning Buchan as a strong creative force in Scottish and English literature, politics and public life, from the fin-de-siecle to the Second World War. Several of his key works are examined from multiple perspectives, and new research is incorporated into established traditions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1851969985
• ISBN 13: 9781851969982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300