Oxford to Offer Waugh Seminar

The Oxford University Department of Continuing Education has announced a one-week seminar next summer on the topic Evelyn Waugh: Beyond Brideshead. The theme is explained in the announcement which was posted yesterday:

Since his death 50 years ago, Evelyn Waugh’s reputation has, for many, come to rest on one book alone – Brideshead Revisited. But there is far more to Waugh’s literary output than Brideshead and there is far more to Waugh than the image of him as a snob, a racist, and an instinctive conservative figure set against the modern world. This course will examine a number of Waugh’s novels and will critically examine the work of one of the most important English novelists of the first half of the 20th century and one of the finest stylists of all time.

The seminar is part of a program called The Oxford Experience which offers

a residential summer programme providing one-week courses in a variety of subjects aimed at non-specialists. It offers a choice of seminars each week over a period of six weeks.

It will be held in the week of 16-22 July 2017 and participants will be fed and housed at Christ Church. It will be lead by Paul Laurence Quinn, Senior Lecturer at the University of Chichester. The classes will meet in the morning for five consecutive days and discuss these novels: Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, The Loved One and Sword of Honour. The books are assigned in the current US editions issued in paperback by Back Bay Books/Little, Brown. The seminar is open to the public and registration begins on 19 September.

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