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Category Archives: Academia
Academic Reassessment of Remote People
Academic and literary scholar/critic Kate Macdonald has recently posted on her website a review of Waugh’s 1931 travel book Remote People. It in she applies today’s social and political standards to Waugh’s book. She finds much of the humor to … Continue reading
More Details about Leeds Waugh Event
The University of Leeds has released more information, including booking arrangements, for next Wednesday’s event marking the 50th anniversary of Waugh’s death: To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Waugh’s death, Alexander Waugh, Martin Stannard and Dr Barbara Cooke, University of Leicester, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Events, Manuscripts, Vile Bodies
Tagged Brotherton Library, Juvenilia, University of Leeds
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Conservative Think Tank Recommends Waugh Trilogy
The Hoover Institution of Stanford University has added Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy to its Classics of Military History. This is a recommended reading list posted on the Hoover’s internet site. The explanation for inclusion of Waugh’s war novels is … Continue reading
Name Confusion (More)
The BBC has called in Professor of English Literature Valentine Cunningham at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to discuss the issue of name confusion stirred up by the Time magazine flap. They chose Prof. Cunningham, author of British Writers of the Thirties, thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Humo(u)r, Interviews, Oxford, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC, name confusion, New York Magazine, Valentine Cunningham
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Waugh Removed from Time Magazine Top Women Author List
Earlier today Evelyn Waugh was trending on Twitter as readers noticed that he was included on Time magazine’s list of the top 100 women authors compiled from an analysis of college syllabuses. The New York Observer story illustrates Waugh’s original listing … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Scoop, The Loved One, Twitter
Tagged New York Observer, Time magazine, top 100 women authors
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David Cameron Learns from Lord Copper
Blogger Roger Mac Ginty, who is also Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Manchester, compares press coverage of the recent UK-EU negotiations to a Waugh novel: There was something very scripted about David Cameron’s EU negotiations on Thursday and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Scoop
Tagged David Cameron, Roger Mac Ginty
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TES Cites Black Mischief
The latest Times Educational Supplement cites Waugh’s Black Mischief in its “What Are You Reading? ” column. This has an entry by Peter Catterall, Reader in History at University of Westminister and author of several books on British history and politics, who writes: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Black Mischief
Tagged Peter Catterall, TES
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TLS Posts 1935 Review of Waugh’s Edmund Campion
The curent issue of the TLS posts the 1935 review of Waugh’s Edmund Campion in its Then and Now column. The review is written by A.F. Pollard, Professor of History at University College London and specialist in the Tudor period. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Edmund Campion
Tagged A.F. Pollard, TLS
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Waugh Anniversary Events Announced
The University of Leicester has announced the details of the first in what will be of a series of events to mark the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death in 1966. These include a monthly book group session starting on Monday 18 January. This will … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Film
Tagged University of Leicester
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Waugh and Anthony Powell
On the occasion of their republication by the University of Chicago Press, two of Anthony Powell’s novels are reviewed on a website called The Millions. One of these (Venusberg) was originally published before and the other (Oh How the Wheel … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Discussions
Tagged Anthony Powell, Levi Stahl, O How the Wheel Becomes It, Venusberg
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