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• Title: John Mulgan at the Clarendon Press (Biography)
• Author : JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 178 KB

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On June 27th 1935, aged 24 and even before he received his University exam results, John Mulgan was appointed to a one-year trial position on the editorial staff at the Clarendon Press in Oxford. He would be confirmed in his appointment on March 27th 1936, and would work at the Press as an editor until the end of August 1939, when he left to join his army battalion in preparation for war. Mulgan's employment at the Press was, in part, the product of his peculiar position as a Dominion subject studying at the heart of Empire. Welcomed in Oxford and London by the prominent circle of influential New Zealanders active in culture and commerce, Mulgan had met Kenneth Sisam, the Assistant-Secretary at the Press and a former New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, early foUowing his arrival in the U.K. in late 1933. As with the other New Zealand holders of prestigious scholarships for study at Oxford--James Bertram, Geoffrey Cox and J.A.W. Bennett--Mulgan was immediately offered entry into the world of the expatriate elite, a position that worked not only in terms of providing support and reassurance to the new arrival, but opened up avenues for advancement and potential employment. Sisam's subsequent offer of a position at the Press was part of a particular late Imperial dynamic: the cream of the colonies recruited to the cultural heart of the UK. Mulgan's time at the Press is vital to a consideration of his work because it was here that he both developed his left-wing sympathies in the run up to the conflict in which be would become a combatant, and wrote Man Alone (in 1938). His duties at the Press were a mix of literary and non-literary projects. The condensation of Paul Harvey's Companion to English Literature, published in 1939 as The Condse Oxford Dictionary of English Literature, and Mulgan's work on the 1938 Oxford Book of Light Verse, edited by W.H. Auden, were matched by constant tours of universities in the UK, talking to authors and soliciting manuscripts for potential publication. Mulgan's role as an editor was not simply that of a dutiful employee, following the commands of the Press' Delegates in establishing publication lists and series. From 1936 onwards, he was active in the actual shaping of publishing policy, and the bulk of his editorial correspondence points to a clear desire to extend the range of the Press to include political science, sociology and economics, the subjects he clearly felt were acting as a barometer of the troubled European present of the late 1930s. What emerges from the study of Mulgan's time at the Clarendon Press is a commitment to both literary and political culture driven by a desire to articulate and advertise the nature of the modernity in which he found himself. Just as he sought to read and meet the new contemporary practitioners of both literature and literary criticism, Mulgan attempted to build a publications list that would engage with the key political and economic traumas of late 1930s Europe. In so doing, he brought clear left-wing convictions to bear on the development of the Press' relationship with political science and economics in particular. As wrote Man Alone in his lodgings on Banbury Road in Oxford, Mulgan's day-to-day work activities show him to be an informed and anxious observer of the crisis that developed around him.

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