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Category Archives: Vile Bodies
Waugh and Intermodernism
An academic article entitled “Intermodernism and the Ethics of Lateness in Evelyn Waugh and Harold Acton” and published in English Studies, v. 103, Number 6 (2022) has been posted on the internet. This is written by Allan Killner-Johnson, University of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies
Tagged Allan Killner-Johnson, English Studies, Harold Acton
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Gerhardie, Waugh and Boyd
Novelist William Boyd has written an essay for The Spectator about the influence of William Gerhardie’s novels on several British novelists of the interwar period. It is entitled “Evelyn Waugh’s sincerest form of flattery.” Here’s an excerpt from the beginning: … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged The Spectator, William Boyd, William Gerhardie
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Evelyn Waugh Studies, No. 53.1 (Spring 2022)
The latest issue of the society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been distributed to the members and is now posted at this link. Here is a description of the contents as set forth in the cover letter: 1. Thomas J. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Vile Bodies, World War II
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Arnold Bennett Revival ?
Simon Heffer writing in the Daily Telegraph reconsiders the career and reputation of Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), an early supporter of Evelyn Waugh. The article opens with this: Despite the literary achievement of Arnold Bennett, generations have now grown up unaware … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Arnold Bennett, Daily Telegraph
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May Day Roundup
–The second part of Alexander Larman’s centenary recognition of Kingsley Amis has appeared in this month’s regular issue of The Critic. See previous post. He starts with an amusing description of Amis’s somewhat ramshackle acceptance of his Booker Prize for … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One, Vile Bodies, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Alan Bennett, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Gavin Millar, Guardian, The Critic, The Jacobin
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New Academic Studies (Updated)
–The article based on a previously mentioned lecture has now been published and posted on the internet. This is entitled “Narrating Difficult Histories: Interwar Border Crossing in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930) and Christopher Isherwood’s Down There on a Visit … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Fiction, Remote People, Vile Bodies
Tagged English Studies, Ghent University
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Partygate Roundup
–An article posted on the website The Conversation,com has attracted a lot of attention since it appeared last week. This is entitled “Partygate Revisited” and is written by Trinity College Dublin senior research scholar Orlaith Darling. She begins with a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Events, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Jeffrey Meyers, New York Times, Spiked.com, The Article, The Critic, University of Nottingham
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Academic Roundup: 2020-2021
The following articles and reviews have appeared in academic journals for the period 2020-21 (2019 in one case) and have not been previously posted. The summaries of articles come (except as noted) from an academic library search service and those … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Articles, Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags, Vile Bodies
Tagged Naomi Milthorpe
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