Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh Studies

Alastair Graham, Steven Runciman and More Misfits

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A blogger named John (who lives in the Southern US) posted on his weblog Notes from a Common-place Book a report of his recent trip to England. This posting is dated 4 September 2017. He sought out gravesites of writers he considered “misfits” … Continue reading →

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Decline & Fall DVD to be Released in USA

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Acorn TV will begin USA sales of the DVD of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall later this month. This is the BBC’s adaptation that was broadcast in the UK earlier this year. Amazon.com has announced availability of the DVD effective 12 … Continue reading →

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Latest Evelyn Waugh Studies Available

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The latest issue of the society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been issued. This is No. 48.1 (Spring 2017) and is available at this link. The contents are set out below: ARTICLES Et in Chatsworth Ego? by Peter J. Comerford Guy’s … Continue reading →

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Et in Arcadia Ego (More)

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Latin phrase that Waugh used for the first chapter of Brideshead Revisited (“Et in Arcadio Ego”) was mentioned in a recent post in connection with Paul Theroux’s humorous allusion to it in his recent novel Mother Land. Since that was … Continue reading →

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Commonweal Marks J F Powers Centenary

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Roman Catholic literary magazine Commonweal has marked the centenary of novelist J F Powers birth with an article on Powers’ career entitled “His Bleak Materials” by biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers. The article begins with Meyers’ memoir of a 1981 … Continue reading →

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2017 John H. Wilson Jr. Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest

Posted on May 28, 2017 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Essays by undergraduates on the life and work of Evelyn Waugh are solicited for the 2017 John H. Wilson Jr. Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest. The contest is sponsored by Evelyn Waugh Studies, the journal of the Evelyn Waugh Society, … Continue reading →

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Latest Issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies Posted on Website

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Antony F. P. Vickery

The latest issue of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies (Vol 47 No. 3, Winter 2016) is now posted on the website. It includes an article entitled “Guy’s Deleted Nippers, Part I: The Unending Story of the Ending of Unconditional … Continue reading →

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News Bomb

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

As the concern over fake news spreads, an online newspaper in Chile has joined others in recommending Waugh’s Scoop. See earlier posts. This appears in a column “VerComeryLeer [SeeEatRead]” by Miguel Ortiz in the digital journal El Definido: We are being … Continue reading →

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New Study of Waugh’s Satire Published

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Naomi Milthorpe, well known to Waugh Society members, has written a study of Waugh’s works entitled Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts. The book was published last month and is described in the publisher’s announcement as offering: … new exegetical accounts of the … Continue reading →

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Entire Back-catalogue of Evelyn Waugh Newsletter/Studies Now Available Online

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

In a major development in the field of Evelyn Waugh scholarship, the entire back-catalogue of the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter/Studies has been made available through the University of Leicester Special Collections Online. The Evelyn Waugh Studies Collection comprises searchable complete runs … Continue reading →

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