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Pages: 256
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978-1-61147-048-2 • Hardback • April 2011 • $121.00 • (£93.00)
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Donat Gallagher teaches in the English Department of James Cook University in North Queensland. He has edited The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waughand 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 (Everyman's Library, 1998) and Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One and The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (Everyman's Library, 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.
1 Acknowledgements
2 Abbreviations
3 Introduction
Chapter 4 1. Evelyn Waugh, Bookman
Chapter 5 2. A Walking Tour of Evelyn Waugh's Oxford
Chapter 6 3. "A Later Developement": Evelyn Waugh and Conversion
Chapter 7 4."That Glittering, Intangible Western Culture": "Civilizing" Missions and the Crisis of Tradition in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief
Chapter 8 5. Sovereign Power in Evelyn Waugh's Edmund Campion and Helena
Chapter 9 6. Waffle Scramble: Waugh's Art in Scoop
Chapter 10 7. Violence, Duplicity, and Frequent Malversation:Robbery under Law and Evelyn Waugh's Political Critique
Chapter 11 8. Homosexuality in Brideshead Revisited:"Something quite remote from anything the [builder] intended"
Chapter 12 9. The World's Anachronism: The Timelessness of the Secular in Evelyn Waugh's Helena
Chapter 13 10. Guy Crouchback's Disillusion: Crete, Beevor, and the Soviet Alliance in Sword of Honor
Chapter 14 11. The BBC Brideshead, 1956, or Whatever Happened to Celia, Sex, and Syphilis?
Chapter 15 12. Eyes Reopened:A Tourist in Africa
16 Notes on Contributors
17 Index
Pasternak Slater usefully explores the many ways reversal can play out, and relates the literary procedure to Waugh's own real-life experiences in Abyssinia.
— Evelyn Waugh Studies