The Society is pleased to post the latest edition of its journal Evelyn Waugh Studies. This is No. 55.1 (Spring 2024). The contents are described by the Society’s Secretary Jamie Collinson as follows:
The winner of the EWS’ 2023 Undergraduate Essay Contest takes the lead in edition 55.1 of Evelyn Waugh Studies, which is available here, courtesy of Jonathan Pitcher and Yuexi Liu. Faith Adams’ fascinating essay examines Waugh’s satire and modernism in Vile Bodies, and how media and celebrity culture feature in the novel.
Waugh’s late masterpiece, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, is the latest of his works to be published in the Oxford University Press’ Complete Works editions, edited by noted Waugh scholar Barbara Cooke of Loughborough University. Vincenzo Barney reviews the book for EWS, under the unbeatable title ‘Portrait of the Artist off His Onion.’
