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Category Archives: Academia
TLS Reviews Early CWEW Volumes
In the latest issue of TLS, Paula Byrne reviews the first five volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. These were published over several months late last year and early this. Byrne is the author, inter alia, of what … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Martin Stannard, Paula Byrne, TLS
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Waugh’s University Challenge
This week’s University Challenge quiz on the BBC featured Clare College, Cambridge against Hertford College, Oxford. In his introductory remarks. presenter Jeremy Paxman mentioned among Hertford’s best known alumni John Donne, Jonathan Swift and Evelyn Waugh. He went on to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Oxford, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Hertford College, University Challenge
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Waugh in Japan
ProQuest has published another link on the internet to an academic study relating to Evelyn Waugh. This is an article by the late John Howard Wilson entitled “The Origins of Japanese Interest in Evelyn Waugh 1948-1963” and was published in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society, Evelyn Waugh Studies
Tagged A D Peters Collection, Japanese translations, John Howard Wilson, Marcel Decoste, Naomi Milthorpe, Papers on Language and Literature, Yoshiharu Usui
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English Writers in Mexico
A link to an article on English writers in Mexico has been posted on the internet by ProQuest. This was written by Simon Carnell and appeared in 2015 over several issues of the University of Manchester’s journal PN Review. It … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Research, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Mexico, PN Review, Simon Carnell
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Another Waugh School Under Threat
Last week, The Spectator reported the threat of closure faced by the Downside Abbey School. (See previous post). Now the Daily Mail has announced that another Waugh-related school is endangered, although there is no imminent threat to its continued existence. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Lancing, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, IKEA
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Roundup: From Australia to Europe via Mexico
–A recent issue of The Australian has an essay by Paul Monk entitled “Western Civilisation: A primer for willing readers.” This includes a broad consideration of liberal arts educational experiences over the years. Among those discussed are the Oxford years … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Remote People, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Alex Murray, Edward Gibbon, FiveBooks, Junge Welt, Project MUSE, The Australian, TLS
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Downside’s Future Threatened (Updated)
The current issue of The Spectator has an article about the future of the two remaining Benedictine order public schools in Britain. These are Ampleforth in North Yorkshire and Downside in Somerset. A combination of falling enrollments (Roman Catholics are … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Scoop
Tagged Downside Abbey, Paul Manafort, Public Schools, The Guardian, The Spectator, Will Heaven
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Two Views of a Turning Point
Perry Anderson in the second half of his long essay on Anthony Powell in the London Review of Books mentions Evelyn Waugh several times. Most notable is his comparison of the reaction of Powell’s narrator in Dance to the Music of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Anthony Powell, London Review of Books, Perry Anderson
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Waugh in History
Waugh is cited in the context of two quite different works of history: In the current issue of the magazine First Things (journal of the nonsectarian Institute on Religion and Public Life), there is a review of a book by … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Newspapers, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Ayyaantuu News, Ethiopia, First Things, Liturgical Reforms, Vatican II
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A Tale of Two Anthonys
The current issue of the London Review of Books has an essay by Prof Perry Anderson on Anthony Powell. This considers the recent biography of Powell by Hilary Spurling and morphs into a longer critical consideration of Powell’s works. It is … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Black Mischief, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged America, Anthony Burgess, Anthony Powell, Christopher Sandford, Hilary Spurling, London Review of Books, Prof Perry Anderson
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