@phdthesis { , title = {John Buchan's uncollected journalism: A critical and bibliographic investigation}, abstract = {John Buchan (1875-1940) has a literary reputation as a minor novelist, based mainly on his success as a popular fiction writer, the inventor of the spy thriller in his best-known novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915). Although there has been considerably increased scholarly interest in his work in recent years, the perception that he is mainly a genre writer persists and has limited the success of attempts to move his literary reputation towards the academic mainstream. Other areas of his writing have received some recognition, but his uncollected journalism has remained a neglected aspect of his work, largely overlooked even by Buchan specialists. This thesis brings an academic focus to Buchan's uncollected journalism for the first time. It breaks new ground by examining the style, structure, and content of his articles and reviews, and argues that Buchan should be considered as an essayist of elegance and authority, an astute literary critic attuned to contemporary trends, and a wide-ranging cultural commentator on his times. The thesis shows that Buchan's uncollected journalism, in its volume and range, provides a major field for the additional research which is clearly required if Buchan's literary reputation is to be further enhanced. It aims to make a significant contribution by opening up this area of his work to future study in two entirely new ways. First, it contains an extensive catalogue of his uncollected journalism, over a thousand items in total, with each article categorised and summarised as an aid to future researchers, features which have never before been available. The catalogue also contains a hundred articles and reviews which have not been included in any previous bibliography. Secondly, it provides a selection of annotated articles which could form the basis of the first critical edition of Buchan's essays to be issued in order to promote further recognition of this aspect of his writing.}, note = {Comments and Suggestions : Checked and looks like he's correct - can't find any reason why they wouldn't be in the public domain. Copyright confirmation: The Appendix to the thesis reprints in full 25 complete articles from the Spectator, the Times, John O'London's Weekly, the Listener, the Graphic, the Glasgow Herald, and Glasgow University Magazine. The articles date from 1895 to 1930 and all were written by John Buchan,who died in 1940. My understanding of copyright law is that all of Buchan's writing came out of copyright in 2010, ie. 70 years after his death. Therefore, there is no requirement to obtain copyright permission either from the Buchan estate or from the owners of the magazines which published the articles. However, would you please confirm that my understanding of the copyright position is correct.}, publicationstatus = {Unpublished}, url = {https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/839240}, keyword = {essayist, literary, critic, middlebrow, modernism, cultural, commentator, thriller, fiction, themes, sources, articles, reviews, catalogue, poetry, biography, history, philosophy, politics, imperialism, war, economics, exploration, mountaineering, Edwardi}, author = {Clarke, Roger John} }