John Buchan’s amicable anti-modernism

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John Buchan’s amicable anti-modernism

This article considers the novelist John Buchan’s changing responses to literary modernism in the inter-war period. It argues that although Buchan has generally been taken as a straightforward opponent of modernist writing, careful study of his oeuvre discloses a more complex scenario in which an an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Waddell, Nathan
Format:	Article
Published:	Indiana University Press 2012
Subjects:	John Buchan; modernism; middlebrow; inter-war; Huntingtower
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28810/

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