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Waugh’s “Hungry Novels” in TLS

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

Literary journalist and critic Laura Freeman writes in this week’s TLS of a subgenre she defines as the “hungry novels” which flourished in the 1940s-50s. Her essay opens with an extended reference to the scene in Brideshead Revisited where Waugh … Continue reading →

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