Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited

Oxford Mail Previews New Book on Waugh

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Oxford Mail in an article by Andrew Ffrench offers an advance look at a new book about Evelyn Waugh to be issued next month. This is Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford by Barbara Cooke who is lecturer at Loughborough University and … 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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Precocious Waughs Reviewed in Italian Press

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Aridea Fezzi Price writing in Il Giornale, an Italian language newspaper published in Milan, reviews Precocious Waughs. This is one of the first volumes published in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project and the first of 12 to be included … Continue reading →

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Andrew Marr and Ma Meyrick

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC4 is rebroadcasting Andrew Marr’s 2009 documentary series The Making of Modern Britain. Yesterday, this reached Episode 4: “Having a Ball.” This covered the 1920s, and both opened and closed with a party. Marr began by mixing a drink he … Continue reading →

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Waugh Letter to French Translator

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

London booksellers Peter Harrington have on offer a 1946 letter from Evelyn Waugh to a  translator who was interested in producing a French version of Vile Bodies. This is Jean Dauven who apparently had asked Waugh a number of questions … Continue reading →

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Two Hits and Two Misses

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The staff at The American Conservative magazine are asked to contribute to a regular column called “TAC Bookshelf” describing and rating their current reading. Andrew J Bacevich devoted his latest contribution to Evelyn Waugh. He considered Sword of Honour a … Continue reading →

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Midwinter Roundup: Worldwide Waugh

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Evelyn Waugh is mentioned in two recent German newspaper articles: In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Andrea Diener writes a column noting the domination by women of the Guardian’s fiction bestseller list–only one man made the list: Haruki Murakami at #6. … 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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Three Views of Brideshead

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Blogger-philosophers seem to be spending the winter months reading and thinking about the religious implications of Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. On the conservative weblog counter-currents.com, there is a two-part review of a book first published in 1947 by theologian Alan … 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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