Category Archives: Fiction

Autumnal Equinox Round-up

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–A N Wilson writing in the Times newspaper reviews a new book by Dominic Sandbrook. This is number 5 in a series Sandbrook is writing about the cultural and social history of England in the post Suez period. It covers … Continue reading →

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Positive Light on 2008 Brideshead Film

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Several recent articles have reconsidered the much-maligned 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited in a relatively more positive light: –In a essay published in TLS earlier this month, Mikaella Clements writes about the theme of the “bath in twentieth century … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Academia: Shanghai and Oxford

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

A paper relating to Waugh will be presented later this week at an academic conference in China. This is entitled “Hearing Voices: The Extended Mind in Evelyn Waugh’s The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold“. It will be offered on Saturday, 21 September … Continue reading →

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Mid-September Roundup: Applause and Design

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

—The Times newspaper carries an excerpt from David Cameron’s new memoirs For the Record in which he recalls his education. After prep school and Eton, he discusses Oxford and concludes with this about his membership in the Bullingdon Club: I … Continue reading →

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Croatian Version of A Handful of Dust

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The Zagreb-based publisher Mozaik Knjiga has issued a Croatian translation of Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust. The Croatian title is Pregršt prašine and the translator is Petra Mrduljaš. The book is reviewed in the weekly Croatian national news magazine Nacional … Continue reading →

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Waugh Letter for Sale

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

A 4 December 1959 letter from Evelyn Waugh to a reader in Columbus, Ohio is for sale. The letter is offered on the internet by Charles Agvent Rare Books and Autographs of Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. The letter is addressed to Jane … Continue reading →

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Early September Roundup

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

–Waugh biographer Selina Hastings has reviewed D J Taylor’s recent literary history Lost Girls in the Literary Review. See earlier posts. Her review concludes with this: In Lost Girls, Taylor presents a colourful portrait of this fascinating, sophisticated and highly … Continue reading →

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Dystopias and Novellas

Posted on September 8, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Novelist Robert Harris has written an essay in The Sunday Times about and extract from his new novel The Second Sleep that will be published next week in the UK (19 November in the USA). The novel is written in … Continue reading →

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Waugh and The Brexlit Novel

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

The Australian literary journal Quadrant has posted an article entitled “Brexit and the Decline of the English Novel” in which a new genre of novel is described. This is the “Brexlit” novel and has already chalked up a number of … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh and the Mid-Century Gothic

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

A book published earlier this year addresses what it sees as a postwar response in literature and other media of cultural expression to the modernism that prevailed in the interwar period. The book is entitled Mid-Century Gothic which is the … Continue reading →

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