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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Floreat Brideshead
Brideshead Revisited receives attention in several recent postings. The New Statesman carries a brief article in its “TV and Radio” column in which a viewer retrospectively considers the 1981 TV adaptation: Watching it now, at the terrifying age of 53, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Television
Tagged Bonhams, New Statesman, Pansy Lamb
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Waugh for the Holidays
As the holidays approach, the media are gathering their year end collections of journalistic musings on 2016. Several of these implicate Evelyn Waugh or his writings. In the Daily Express, comedian Ruby Wax names a Waugh novel as one of her … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Express, Danny Morrison, Irish Echo, Philip Eade, Ruby Wax, TES, TLS
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Latest Evelyn Waugh Studies Posted on Website
The latest issue of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies (No. 47.2, Autumn 2016) is posted on the website. Here are the contents: ARTICLES Grace Stevens, Unnatural Narratology and the Tiresian Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited David Bittner, The “Vanbrugh Brouhaha” … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, Anthony Blanche, Bryony Lavery, Evelyn Waugh Studies Autumn 2016, Philip Eade, Vanbrugh
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Waugh Cited in Book on Alcohol in Literature
The Guardian has published an essay which appears to be based on a book about the role played by alcohol in 20th Century history. This is by Henry Jeffreys and is entitled Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass.” See earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Alcohol in Literature, Henry Jeffreys, Wine Connoisseurship
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Weekly Standard Remembers Waugh
The latest issue of Weekly Standard carries an article memorializing Waugh in this 50th anniversary year of his death. This is by Algis Valiunas who is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The essay begins with the familiar characterization … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Algis Valiunas, Weekly Standard
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Evelyn Waugh and “The Waste Land”
The Guardian has named T S Eliot’s “The Waste Land” as its latest selection in its 100 best non-fiction books. See earlier post. Once again Evelyn Waugh is mentioned in connection with the selection: The Great War was a mass slaughter. … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Guardian, T S Eliot, The Waste Land. Robert McCrum
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Waugh in the News (more)
The author (Pedro Mexia) of the Portuguese language article about Evelyn Waugh in the weekly Lisbon newspaper Expresso has kindly sent us a complete copy of the article. See earlier post for the opening paragraph. Here is an edited Google translation of … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Expresso, Frances Donaldson, Ian Littlewood, Pedro Mexia
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Waugh in the News
Evelyn Waugh is cited or quoted in several recent newspaper articles: In the Guardian, columnist Ian Jack has written a story in which he muses about the possibility that the Oxford-Cambridge rail line may be revived under a recent government … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Expresso (Lisbon), Guardian, New York Times, NYRB, The Inquirer (Philippines)
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Scoop Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 Extra earlier this week rebroadcast a two-hour adaptation of Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop. This was written by Jeremy Front who has also adapted for radio Decline and Fall (2016), Sword of Honour (2013) and Brideshead Revisited (2003). The Scoop dramatization was first … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Radio, Radio Programs, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Front
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Waugh and the “Inner Toff”
Author and journalist James Delingpole, writing in this week’s Spectator in an essay entitled “How I learned to embrace my inner toff,” cites Waugh as a precedent in defense of his reaction to certain recent changes in life style. Delingpole acquired … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Twitter
Tagged James Delingpole, The Spectator
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