...Elgin W. Mellown Evelyn Waugh: A Biography . By Sykes Christopher . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1975 . Pp. xii , 462 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Book Reviews 529 Evelyn Waugh: A Biography. By Christopher Sykes. Boston: Lit­ tle, Brown...

...Steven A. Jervis Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies, and the Younger Generation Steven A. Jervis When Walter Outrage, the muddled, philandering prime minister in Evelyn Waugh s Vile Bodies (1930), castigated the young, he was voicing a common complaint of the times: They had a chance after the war...

...William B. Hamilton Edmund Campion . By Waugh Evelyn . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1946 . Pp. 249 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 152 The South Atlantic Quarterly rare commodity is the chief characteristic of this essay, in which the author...

...Richard J. Voorhees Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 EVELYN WAUGH REVISITED RICHARD J. VOORHEES WHEN EDMUND WILSON read Brideshead Revisited (1945), he was annoyed to find in Evelyn Waugh a pre­ occupation with such matters as religion and morality and a reverence for the values...

...Robert S. Smith Pepperell’s Progress: History of a Cotton Textile Company, 1844-1945 . By Knowlton Evelyn H. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1948 . Pp. xxix , 511 . $5.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 108 The South Atlantic Quarterly commitment...

...G. S. Rousseau Wild Austerities: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh G. S. Rousseau Ifthe writer of these letters1 had been merely outrageous (William Pritchard has called him impossible in a sensitive review that recently appeared in The American Scholar), their shape and form would be rather different...

...John F. Roche The Revolutionary Journal of Baron Ludwig von Closen 1780-1783 . Translated and edited with an Introduction by Acomb Evelyn M. . ( Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture .) Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1958 . Pp. xxxvi...

...Don W. Kleine Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 The Cosmic Comedies of Evelyn Waugh Don W. Kleine Evelyn Waugh s earliest comic performances appear, in recent years, to have undergone relative eclipse. The acclaim for Brideshead Revisited has dulled their sheen; their social...

...Gabriel Gersh A Little Learning: An Autobiography: The Early Years . By Waugh Evelyn . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1964 . Pp. viii , 234 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Book Reviews 425 A Little Learning: An Autobiography: The Early Years...

...D. Paul Farr Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Evelyn Waugh Tradition and a Modern Talent D. Paul Farr In a review of Chesterton: Man and Mask, Evelyn Waugh warned critics: It has become commonly accepted nowadays that any man s idosyncrasies of appearance or manner...

...Evelyn M. Acomb A Yankee’s Odyssey: The Life of Joel Barlow . By Woodress James . New York : J. B. Lippincott Co. , 1958 . Pp. 347 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 493 The liberal young Frenchman is horrified by the segregation, preju­ dice...

... foreign population, the apparent turning off of the teenaged children of most of the book s characters. Kate lives surrounded by this evil. As a journalist she writes about it, muses about its sociological causes, deplores it, but she is not personally affected by it. It is her friend Evelyn Stennett...

... the Wars. By Paul Fussell. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 246. $14.95. I do not think I shall ever forget the sight of Etna at sunset, Evelyn Waugh wrote in 1930. The mountain almost invisible in a blur of pastel grey, glowing on the top and then repeating its shape, as though reflected...

... of a born courtesan. The characters of Edward, her sensitive and keenly intelligent husband, and Major Evelyn Bathurst, his sturdy and de­ voted but rather stupid friend, are almost equally well drawn and living. Evelyn, confident in his masculine superiority, resolves to humiliate Carol and shame her...

... compared to Evelyn Waugh s satiric early novels Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, of which it is perhaps the only contemporary peer. Powell wrote no fiction during the six years he spent as an officer in the British army during the Second World War. Upon leaving the army he decided that the thing to do...

... to the influence of Tolstoi, Turgenev, and Dostoevski, appear to have been com­ petently handled. In general, the book will be of interest chiefly to the student of Russian literature. John S. Curtiss. Edmund Campion. By Evelyn Waugh. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. Pp. 249. $2.75. Here is Mr. Waugh...

..., and the intellectual enthusiasm of Henry Wotton in 1589, of John Evelyn in 1643, and of Bayard Taylor in 1844 all produced very re­ warding tours, which are brightly sketched in this volume. Though Mr. Trease, somewhat embarrassed by a superabundance of riches, cramps certain famous travelers Addison, Thomas Gray...

... an antistereotype strategy. While respectability politics has come to connote a pernicious practice among scholars and activ- ists, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (1993) initially theorized respectability politics as having both radical and conservative effects. Respectability was a discursive and political weapon...

... entails a relational ethic of interdependency. At the camp, volunteers practice multiple modes of care that fulfill three primary actions laid out by sociolo- gist Evelyn Nakano Glenn (2000: 86–87): (1) ethics of care, or to care about, is expounded by the use of care as a larger response...

... to the influence of Tolstoi, Turgenev, and Dostoevski, appear to have been com­ petently handled. In general, the book will be of interest chiefly to the student of Russian literature. John S. Curtiss. Edmund Campion. By Evelyn Waugh. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. Pp. 249. $2.75. Here is Mr. Waugh...