- Drag Amazon+EWS to your favorites bar for all your Amazon needs and support the Evelyn Waugh Society at no extra cost to yourself.
Category Archives: Academia
Lucy, Paula, Jane and Evelyn
Columnist Jennifer Selway in her Daily Express entertainment gossip column brings Evelyn Waugh into a literary scholarship cat fight between Waugh biographer Paula Byrne, PhD (Liverpool), and BBC historical TV presenter Lucy Worsley, DPhil (Sussex), both of whom have also written … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Express, Jane Austen, Jennifer Selway, Lucy Worsley, Paula Byrne, plagiarism, Private Eye
Comments Off on Lucy, Paula, Jane and Evelyn
More Information Available on Initial Complete Works Volumes
Oxford University Press has released additional information on the first volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh to be published later this year. See previous posts. This includes more detailed descriptions of the contents as well as the cover art … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged Amazon.com, Oxford University Press
Comments Off on More Information Available on Initial Complete Works Volumes
Article on Waugh and Refugees
The current issue of the Brno Studies in English carries an article by Prof Carlos Villar Flor  entitled “Displacement and Exile in Evelyn Waughâs Post-War Fiction”.  The article is based on a paper Prof Villar Flor presented at the 2015 … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Sword of Honour
Tagged Brno Studies in English, Carlos Villar Flor, WWII refugees
Comments Off on Article on Waugh and Refugees
Cousin Jasper’s Advice
Rosamund Urwin in the Evening Standard has written an article about degree results. She opens with this: In Evelyn Waughâs novel Brideshead Revisited, the protagonist Charles Ryder receives advice from his cousin Jasper before starting his Oxford degree. âYou want a … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Diana Cooper, Evening Standard, Literary Hub, Lord Speaker, The American Conservative
Comments Off on Cousin Jasper’s Advice
Mugwump Redivivus
In the present UK electoral climate, The Spectator has republished a 1959 article by Evelyn Waugh in which he expressed his views of elected governments: âMugwumpsâ are in the news today, after Boris Johnson used the term to describe Jeremy Corbyn. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Alex Renton, boarding schools, Boris Johnson, elections, Lara Prendergast, mugwumps, The Spectator
Comments Off on Mugwump Redivivus
Complete Works of Waugh Available in USA
Amazon.com is offering for sale in the USA the first five volumes in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh to be published by Oxford University Press. The dates of publication and US dollar prices are set forth below. For more details … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged Amazon.com, Oxford University Press
Comments Off on Complete Works of Waugh Available in USA
OUP Announces Dates for First Complete Works Volumes
The Oxford University Press on its website has announced the publication of the first volumes in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. There are five books in this initial batch which will begin to appear on 7 September 2017 with Rossetti: … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Letters, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Vile Bodies
Tagged Complete Works of Waugh publication dates, Oxford University Press
Comments Off on OUP Announces Dates for First Complete Works Volumes
TLS Reviews BBC’s Decline and Fall
In a departure from its usual practice, the TLS has added a TV column to its current issue. This contains Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s review, entitled “Vile Buddies,” of the BBC adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall which concluded with last night’s … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television
Tagged BBC, James Wood, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, TLS
Comments Off on TLS Reviews BBC’s Decline and Fall
The Caramanserai and Objets D’Arcy
The current issue of The Tablet has a feature length article about Frederick Copleston, SJ entitled “The Cleverest Jesuit”. This is by John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University and University of St Andrews. He begins by describing the context … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Vile Bodies
Tagged Frederick Copleston SJ, Heythrop College, Jesuits, Prof John Haldane, The Tablet
Comments Off on The Caramanserai and Objets D’Arcy
