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A Handful of Mischief
New Essays on Evelyn Waugh
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2011
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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 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 innovative essays explore sovereignty, post-colonialism, and adaptation for radio. Contributors: Baron Alder, Peter G. Christensen, Robert Murray Davis, Marcel DeCoste, Patrick Denman Flanery, Donat Gallagher, Irina Kabanova, Dan S. Kostopulos, Lewis MacLeod, John W. Mahon, Richard W. Oram, Ann Pasternak Slater, John Howard Wilson.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61147-048-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-61147-049-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
256
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access Pages 13 - 20
Evelyn Waugh, Bookman No access Pages 21 - 33
A Walking Tour of Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford No access Pages 34 - 61
“A Later Development”: Evelyn Waugh and Conversion No access Pages 62 - 76
“That Glittering, Intangible Western Culture”: “Civilizing” Missions and the Crisis of Tradition in Evelyn Waugh’s Black Mischief No access Pages 77 - 86
Sovereign Power in Evelyn Waugh’s Edmund Campion and Helena No access Pages 87 - 95
Waffle Scramble: Waugh’s Art in Scoop No access Pages 96 - 127
Violence, Duplicity, and Frequent Malversation: Robbery under Law and Evelyn Waugh’s Political Critique No access Pages 128 - 136
Homosexuality in Brideshead Revisited: “Something quite remote from anything the [builder] intended” No access Pages 137 - 159
The World’s Anachronism: The Timelessnessof the Secular in Evelyn Waugh’s Helena No access Pages 160 - 171
Guy Crouchback’s Disillusion: Crete, Beevor, and the Soviet Alliance in Sword of Honour No access Pages 172 - 219
The BBC Brideshead, 1956, or Whatever Happened to Celia, Sex, and Syphilis? No access Pages 220 - 231
Eyes Reopened: A Tourist in Africa No access Pages 232 - 242
