A Handful of Mischief
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A Handful of Mischief

New Essays on Evelyn Waugh

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A Handful of Mischief

New Essays on Evelyn Waugh

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9781611470499
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Introduction
  4. Evelyn Waugh, Bookman
  5. A Walking Tour of Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford
  6. “A Later Development”: Evelyn Waugh and Conversion
  7. “That Glittering, Intangible Western Culture”: “Civilizing” Missions and the Crisis of Tradition in Evelyn Waugh’s Black Mischief
  8. Sovereign Power in Evelyn Waugh’s Edmund Campion and Helena
  9. Waffle Scramble: Waugh’s Art in Scoop
  10. Violence, Duplicity, and Frequent Malversation: Robbery under Law and Evelyn Waugh’s Political Critique
  11. Homosexuality in Brideshead Revisited: “Something quite remote from anything the [builder] intended”
  12. The World’s Anachronism: The Timelessness of the Secular in Evelyn Waugh’s Helena
  13. Guy Crouchback’s Disillusion: Crete, Beevor, and the Soviet Alliance in Sword of Honour
  14. The BBC Brideshead, 1956, or Whatever Happened to Celia, Sex, and Syphilis?
  15. Eyes Reopened: A Tourist in Africa
  16. Contributors