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Dog Days Roundup
–Will Lloyd, commissioning editor of the New Statesman, has written an interesting and enjoyable article in that journal summarizing why Evelyn Waugh’s works have outlived those of his contemporaries. This is entitled: “Evelyn Waugh is laughing at you: His lethally … Continue reading
Academic Article on Waugh’s Book Collection
The University of Southern California has posted an illustrated copy of Naomi Milthorpe’s 2016 article “A Secret House: Evelyn Waugh’s Book Collection”. Naomi teaches at the University of Tasmania and is a longtime member of the Evelyn Waugh Society. This … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles
Tagged Naomi Milthorpe, The Space Between, University of Southern California
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Waugh and Intermodernism
An academic article entitled “Intermodernism and the Ethics of Lateness in Evelyn Waugh and Harold Acton” and published in English Studies, v. 103, Number 6 (2022) has been posted on the internet. This is written by Allan Killner-Johnson, University of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies
Tagged Allan Killner-Johnson, English Studies, Harold Acton
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Orwell News
George Orwell was born the same year as Evelyn Waugh and they became acquainted in the late 1940s shortly before Orwell’s death. They admired each other’s writing but had different political and religious views (although both agreed in their opposition … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged D.J.Taylor, George Orwell, Guardian, Peter Davison, The Spectator
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Waugh Website Expansion
Duncan McLaren has rearranged his Waugh website in order to accommodate new entries. This involves creation of a new website where he will include all material relating to Waugh’s war and postwar life and writings (from 1939). Original material relating … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Duncan McLaren
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Gerhardie, Waugh and Boyd
Novelist William Boyd has written an essay for The Spectator about the influence of William Gerhardie’s novels on several British novelists of the interwar period. It is entitled “Evelyn Waugh’s sincerest form of flattery.” Here’s an excerpt from the beginning: … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged The Spectator, William Boyd, William Gerhardie
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Waugh Abroad: Firbank and Scoop
Two foreign language journals have recently reviewed works of Waugh. The first is in the Italian religious website Radio Spada. In that essay, Luca Fumagalli reviews an early essay by Waugh on Ronald Firbank that appeared in a 1929 issue … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Diario Sanitario, Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada
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Academia x 2: Pinfold’s Voices and Waugh’s Propaganda
–A recent academic article about Waugh’s postwar novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold has been posted on the internet. This is entitled “Hearing Voices: The Extended Mind in Evelyn Waugh’s The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold” and is by Yuexi Liu, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Guy Woodward, Modernist Cultures, The Review of English Studies, Yuexi Liu
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Academic Roundup: 2020-2021
The following articles and reviews have appeared in academic journals for the period 2020-21 (2019 in one case) and have not been previously posted. The summaries of articles come (except as noted) from an academic library search service and those … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Articles, Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies
Tagged Naomi Milthorpe
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Waugh and the Clothes Press
A new print-only publication the Valet Magazine carries a feature-length article entitled “Waugh’s Last Hat”. This is written by Waugh biographer and weblogger Duncan McLaren. As usual, Duncan combines his scholarship and wit in describing Waugh’s sartorial history. He includes … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Basil Seal Rides Again, Newspapers
Tagged clothes, Duncan McLaren, Valet Magazine
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