Reassessing John Buchan:

This is the first collection of edited essays on the novelist John Buchan (1875 1940), author of "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1915), "Witch Wood" (1927) and "Sick Heart River" (1940) among many other works. Eighteen established scholars reconsider Buchan s writing and reputation from the perspective of the twenty-first century.
"Reassessing John Buchan" examines all Buchan s major fiction and non-fiction writing, and builds on an increasing interest from the academic world 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.