"A handful of mischief" new essays on Evelyn Waugh / edited by Donat Gallagher, Ann Pasternak Slater, and John Howard Wilson.

Author/creator Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference
Other author Gallagher, Donat.
Other author Slater, Ann.
Other author Wilson, John Howard, 1961-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMadison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
Description254 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966--Criticism and interpretation. --Congresses.

Contents Introduction / Robert Murray Davis -- Evelyn Waugh, bookman / Richard W. Oram -- A walking tour of evelyn waugh's oxford / John Howard Wilson -- "A later development": Evelyn Waugh and conversion / John W. Mahon -- "That glittering, intangible Western culture": "civilizing" missions and the crisis of tradition in Evelyn Waugh's Black mischief / Lewis Macleod -- Sovereign power in Evelyn Waugh's Edmund Campion and Helena / Irina Kabanova -- Waffle scramble: Waugh's art in scoop / Ann Pasternak Slater -- Violence, duplicity, and frequent malversation: robbery under law and Evelyn Wwaugh's political critique / Baron Alder -- Homosexuality in Brideshead revisited / Peter G. Christensen -- The world's anachronism: the timelessness of the secular in Evelyn Waugh's Helena / Marcel Decoste -- Guy Crouchback's disillusion: Crete, Beevor, and the Soviet alliance in Sword of honour / Donat Gallagher -- The BBC Brideshead, 1956, or whatever happened to Celia, sex, and syphilis / Patrick Denman Flanery -- Eyes reopened: a tourist in Africa / Dan S. Kostopulos.
General noteEssays originally presented at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference, held at Hertford College, Oxford, Sept. 24-27, 2003.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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