The latest edition of Evelyn Waugh Studies has been distributed and is posted at this link. Here is Jamie Collinson’s description of its contents:
I write to provide you with edition 56.1 of Evelyn Waugh Studies. Appropriately for this back-to-school season, this edition features the winning entry of the John H. Wilson Jr Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest. Nicholas Walz has won the 2024 contest with an original and engaging essay on the theme of eros in Decline and Fall.
The equally engaging writer and classicist Daisy Dunn has become increasingly prominent in recent years. In this edition, Marshall McGraw reviews her latest book, ‘Not Far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars.’ In a ‘meticulous reconstruction of a place and a community that was inseparable from world-historic events,’ Dunn takes as her subject three influential Oxford figures, Gilbert Murray, E. R. Dodds, and Maurice Bowra, who ‘inspired some of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century’ – Waugh among them.
