Category Archives: Academia

Harold Bloom (1930-2019) R.I.P.

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The American literary critic and Yale Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom died earlier this week at the age of 89. There are several notices but perhaps the best are those in the New York Times. One is by Dinitia … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Academia: Shanghai and Oxford

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

A paper relating to Waugh will be presented later this week at an academic conference in China. This is entitled “Hearing Voices: The Extended Mind in Evelyn Waugh’s The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold“. It will be offered on Saturday, 21 September … Continue reading →

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Mid-September Roundup: Applause and Design

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

—The Times newspaper carries an excerpt from David Cameron’s new memoirs For the Record in which he recalls his education. After prep school and Eton, he discusses Oxford and concludes with this about his membership in the Bullingdon Club: I … Continue reading →

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BBC “Great Lives” Revisited

Posted on September 13, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

In this week’s issue of The Tablet, columnist Christopher Howse revisits last December’s BBC Radio 4 broadcast of the series Great Lives in which Evelyn Waugh was the subject. See previous posts. Presenter Matthew Parris interviewed panelists Russell Kane, a … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh and the Mid-Century Gothic

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

A book published earlier this year addresses what it sees as a postwar response in literature and other media of cultural expression to the modernism that prevailed in the interwar period. The book is entitled Mid-Century Gothic which is the … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Huxley

Posted on August 31, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Dr Gillian Dooley, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of English, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, has published a paper entitled “Love, Death and the Satirical Purpose: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One“. This originally appeared in Texture: … Continue reading →

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Harold Acton’s Estate Subject of Lawsuit

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The New York Post’s celebrity gossip website PageSix,com has posted a story relating to Harold Acton’s bequest of his estate near Florence, Italy to New York University. Acton died childless in 1994 and left most of his fine art and … Continue reading →

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Study of A Handful of Dust Published

Posted on July 20, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

An academic study of Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust has been published in the Ganziatep University Journal of Social Studies (01/2019, v18, n1). The university is a public institution located in Southeastern Turkey. The article is entitled “The Doomed … Continue reading →

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Iris Murdoch Centenary Marked This Week

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

This week is the 100th anniversary of novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch’s birth in 1919. It will be marked by a Centenary Conference at St Anne’s College, Oxford this weekend (13-15 July). A later conference is scheduled on 10-11 October at the … Continue reading →

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4th of July Weekend Roundup

Posted on July 7, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–America: The Jesuit Review has reposted on its website a 2013 essay about Waugh written by Jon M Sweeney. The essay was a response to the re-issuance of all of his fiction in the USA by Little, Brown and all … Continue reading →

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