A Handful of Mischief New Essays on Evelyn Waugh

by Gallagher, Donat; Slater, Ann Pasternak; Wilson, John Howard; Alder, Baron; Christensen, Peter G.; Davis, Robert Murray; DeCoste, D. Marcel; Flanery, Patrick Denman; Kabanova, Irina; Kostopulos, Dan S.; MacLeod, Lewis; Mahon, John W.; Oram, Richard W.

• ISBN13: 9781611470482
• ISBN10: 161147048X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-18
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Summary

A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The essays cover a wide range of material, from Waugh's early novel Black Mischief (1932) to his last travel book, A Tourist in Africa (1960). In addition to essays on well-known novels such as Scoop (1938), Brideshead Revisited (1945), and Helena (1950), the collection includes papers on more general topics, such as Waugh's library, his changing conception of Oxford, his writing about religious conversion, and his role in the British evacuation of Crete in 1941. The authors approach Waugh and his work in various ways, and there are innovative essays exploring sovereignty, post-colonialism, and adaptation for radio.

Author Biography

Donat Gallagher teaches in the English department of James cook University in North Queensland. He has edited The Essasys, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh and has published widely in areas where waugh became involved in public controversy. Ann Pasternak Slater is the Eardley-Wilmot Fellow in English at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is the editor of Evelyn Waugh's Complete Short Stories (1998) and Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, and The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (2003). John Howard Wilson is associate professor of English at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. He has published two volumes of a literary biography of Evelyn Waugh and he edits Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Abbreviations	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
Evelyn Waugh, Bookman	p. 21
A Walking Tour of Evelyn Waugh's Oxford	p. 34
"A Later Development": Evelyn Waugh and Conversion	p. 62
"That Glittering. Intangible Western Culture": "Civilizing" Missions and the Crisis of Tradition in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief	p. 77
Sovereign Power in Evelyn Waugh's Edmund Campion and Helena	p. 87
Waffle Scramble: Waugh's Art in scoop	p. 96
Violence, Duplicity, and Frequent Malversation: Robbery under Law and Evelyn Waugh's Political Critique	p. 128
Homosexuality in Brideshead Revisited: "Something quite remote from anything the [builder] intended"	p. 137
The World's Anachronism: The Timelessness of the Secular in Evelyn Waugh's Helena	p. 160
Guy Crouchback's Disillusion: Crete, Beevor, and the Soviet Alliance in Sword of Honour	p. 172
The BBC Brideshead, 1956, or Whatever Happened to Celia, Sex, and Syphilis?	p. 220
Eyes Reopened: A Tourist in Africa	p. 232
Notes on Contributors	p. 243
Index	p. 247
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