John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity

'The collection is an example of "middlebrow studies" at its strongest, and the volume stands as an invitation to further exploration of how Buchan's work overlaps and engages with that of canonical modernist authors as well as prolific Victorian and Edwardian figures.' SHARP News 'The essays are a fascinating collection with several new areas exposed for examination.' The John Buchan Journal 'great stuff, convincing in its range of approaches - historical, stylistic, psychological, commercial - making full use of a by-now substantial biographical and critical archive. Its strength will surely also lie in motivating other scholars to explore neglected but perceptive fictionalist interpreters of this period, from Arnold Bennett to Eric Ambler.' Christopher Harvie, University of Tubingen 'offers a fine mixture of theoretical and archival research that provides the student of modernity with much to consider about John Buchan ... there is much here too on the postwar era that will interest scholars studying the broader literary and social contexts of the years following World War I.' English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920