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Category Archives: Decline and Fall
Autumn Issue of Society Journal
The Autumn 2017 issue of the society’s journal (Evelyn Waugh Studies, No. 48.2) has been issued. The contents are posted below. The complete issue will be posted on the internet later this week: ARTICLES Paul Pennyfeather and the Victorian Governess: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged David Bittner, Donat Gallagher, Ellen O'Brien, Naomi Milthorpe, Robert Laycock, Robert Murray Davis
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Waugh and the Jellyfish
A recent travel guide includes a reference to Waugh’s fortuitous encounter with a jellyfish off the coast of Wales in 1925, where its intervention aborted Waugh’s attempted suicide. This guide is entitled Britain by the Book and is written by academic … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Wales
Tagged Jellyfish, Oliver Tearle, suicide
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Literary Drinking Bouts
In today’s Guardian there is an article in the “Rereading” column by Mark Forsyth discussing the 10 most entertaining discriptions of drinking bouts in literature. One of those included is from Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall: Decline and Fall starts … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged binge drinking, Guardian, Mark Forsyth
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Hooper Floribundus
Two religious bloggers have posted extended discussions of Waugh’s works. The Rad Trad has written an essay entitled “The Age of Hooper”. This opens with Waugh’s own introduction of Hooper and his foibles to the readers of Brideshead Revisited: “…Hooper … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Cincinnati Enquirer, EdgeInducedCohesion.blog, Kenneth Craycraft, TheRadTrad.com
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Boris Johnson Wins “Pennyfeather Prize”
Michael Deacon writing in the Daily Telegraph reports on Boris Johnson’s overblown responses to parliamentary questions: …Virtually his every answer was a speech, lasting two, three, four minutes…Whether the committee found Mr Johnson’s views enlightening, I couldn’t say. But as … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Boris Johnson, Daily Telegraph, Michael Deacon
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Pappenhacker Awards in The Australian
The Murdoch organization’s Antipodean news outlet, The Australian, reports awards to journalists based on a Waugh character, a foreign correspondent named Pappenhacker from Scoop. This is explained in the paper’s column “Media Watch Dog” by Gerard Henderson, starting with a … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Gerard Henderson, Pappenhacker awards, The Australian
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Mr Sniggs and the Pillocks
In the Evening Standard, Sam Leith unburdens himself of his thoughts on today’s undergraduates as they are returning to classes in the UK this week. He opens with a passage from Evelyn Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall where Junior Dean Sniggs … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Evening Standard, Sam Leith, students
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Waugh and the Small, Cornered Creature
Private Eye (8-21 September) cites Waugh in its review (“Doesnae land”) of James Kelman’s collected stories That Was a Shiver. This comes after reminding readers that in the early 1990s Kelman was the “hippest cat on the block.” One critic … Continue reading
Danish Journal Publishes Waugh Article
The Danish cultural journal Critique has published for the first time the full version of an essay on Waugh’s life and work written in 2009. This is entitled “Evelyn Waughs korstog mod moderniteten” (“Evelyn Waugh’s Crusade Against Modernity”) and is summarized … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Robbery Under Law, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged Crtique, Soren Besenbacher
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