Category Archives: Academia

CWEW Journalism Volume Published

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Volume 26 of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh was published in the UK earlier this month and is available for sale. This is the fifth volume of the Complete Works to be published and first of four volumes in … Continue reading →

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Update: Churchill’s Secret Affair

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Channel 4’s documentary Churchill’s Secret Affair broadcast last night differs in several important details from the account published in the Daily Mail last week. See previous post. Several experts contribute to the documentary. From our perspective the most important are … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Oxford Reviewed in Times; “The Scarlet Woman” Online

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Times is the first paper to review the new book Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford to be published by the Bodleian Library later this month. The book is by Dr Barbara Cooke who is Co-Executive Editor of OUP’s Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading →

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Greatest Writer of “Our” Generation ?

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Literary critic, novelist and publisher Dr Stoddard Martin has written a review of Philip Eade’s biography which he turns into an assessment of Evelyn Waugh’s career and legacy. This is entitled “Class Act” and appears in The Quarterly Review, an … Continue reading →

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Waugh Presentation at Goa Conference

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The third international conference on the culture, language and literature of Goa was convened last week in India and is reported in several Indian news services. The primary subject was the theatre in Goa, and a presentation was also made … Continue reading →

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Oxfordshire Pub to Host Waugh Event

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Abingdon Arms in Beckley, Oxfordshire, will tonight host an appearance of Prof Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh’s biographer and co-executive editor of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. He will discuss Waugh’s association with the pub which is where … Continue reading →

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Weekend Roundup of Waviana

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

An Athens art exhibit has been titled “The Unseen Hook” (Το αόρατο αγκίστρι). The name is taken from Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. As explained in an article on a Greek website: The “invisible hook” is what binds us to … Continue reading →

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Pinfold Redux: Muriel Spark Centenary

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Articles are appearing in advance of the centenary of novelist Muriel Spark which will be observed next Thursday (1 February). Scottish novelist Allan Massie has written an article in the i Newspaper in which he recalls her career and his … Continue reading →

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Waugh Features in Podcast on “Narrative and Religion”

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

A recent podcast in the series Conversations with Tyler involves an interview with New York Times columnist Russ Douthat. The series is sponsored by George Mason University  and the interviewer is Tyler Cowen but the date and the venue are … Continue reading →

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Waugh, The Revisionist

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The latest edition of Commonweal magazine has an essay by veteran Waugh scholar Robert Murray Davis. This is entitled “‘Brideshead’ Revisited and Revised: The Mixed Reception of Waugh’s Most Famous Novel.” In this, he traces the critical reception of Brideshead … Continue reading →

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