A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh
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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A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh
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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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611470482
Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date: 04/18/2011
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.38(w) x 9.39(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Donat Gallagher teaches in the English Department of James Cook University in North Queensland.
Ann Pasternak Slater is the Eardley-Wilmot Fellow in English at St Anne's College, Oxford.
John Howard Wilson is associate professor of English at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

Abbreviations 11

Introduction Robert Murray Davis 13

Evelyn Waugh, Bookman Richard W. Oram 21

A Walking Tour of Evelyn Waugh's Oxford John Howard Wilson 34

"A Later Development": Evelyn Waugh and Conversion John W. Mahon 62

"That Glittering. Intangible Western Culture": "Civilizing" Missions and the Crisis of Tradition in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief Lewis Macleod 77

Sovereign Power in Evelyn Waugh's Edmund Campion and Helena Irina Kabanova 87

Waffle Scramble: Waugh's Art in scoop Ann Pasternak Slater 96

Violence, Duplicity, and Frequent Malversation: Robbery under Law and Evelyn Waugh's Political Critique Baron Alder 128

Homosexuality in Brideshead Revisited: "Something quite remote from anything the [builder] intended" Peter G. Christensen 137

The World's Anachronism: The Timelessness of the Secular in Evelyn Waugh's Helena Marcel Decoste 160

Guy Crouchback's Disillusion: Crete, Beevor, and the Soviet Alliance in Sword of Honour Donat Gallagher 172

The BBC Brideshead, 1956, or Whatever Happened to Celia, Sex, and Syphilis? Patrick Denman Flanery 220

Eyes Reopened: A Tourist in Africa Dan S. Kostopulos 232

Notes on Contributors 243

Index 247

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