Academic Article on Waugh, Tory Anarchist

The academic publication British Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature has published in its latest edition an article on Evelyn Waugh. This is by Peter Wilkin (Brunel University, Uxbridge) in v. 97, n. 6 (August 2016) and is entitled “The temptation of Evelyn Waugh: portrait of the artist as Tory anarchist.” Here’s the abstract:

Evelyn Waugh’s life and art merged most clearly in his appearance as the iconoclastic Tory anarchist. Captivated, as he clearly was, by the temptations of a life committed to anarchy, Waugh sought to keep this temptation in check through his very deep and public conversion to Roman Catholicism. These two factors in Waugh’s life, anarchy and religion, are central to an understanding of his art, politics and his Tory anarchism. Waugh’s Tory anarchism, then, was the perfect expression of his world-view, which was shaped by a metaphysical outlook that saw the material world as a place of permanent conflict between the forces of Christian civilisation (order) and those of barbarism (chaos).

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