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...G. S. Rousseau Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Steven A. Jervis Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... on the English treatment of various specific corners of the globe showing, for example, how difficult it has always been for civilized minds (e.g., those of Waugh, Greene, Huxley, Lawrence) to come to grips with Mexico. Some Englishmen, like Anthony Burgess, have always preferred writing about places to going...

... 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...

... 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...

..., furiously grinding away at the enormities of these latter days with successive pairs of dentures (U. false teeth). Evelyn Waugh has largely given up (except for brief forays) the habitation in the refined air of comedy of manners which he entered upon so acidly in the twenties and has become more and more...

... 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...

...; a veneration for (not the same) artists, a scorn for the bogus. The university he regarded from the first as a place to be inhabited and enjoyed for itself, not as the preparation for anything else. Ten years later, when the 1920 s had passed, Mr. Waugh stood with Lady Mary Lygon by a fountain in the garden...

..., the “visibility” of the erotic becomes here, in quite explicit terms, the con- ditions under which sexual pleasure circulates. Conclusion In 1977, Thomas Waugh wrote about the then-­emerging cinematic pro- ductions that might offer new, pro-­gay narratives of sexual, personal, and political...

... of thanksgiving for the rebuilding of Campion Hall, Oxford, and of gratitude to the Jesuit who had led Waugh through his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith. Be­ sides the obvious reflections, it inspires the comment that not too much seems to be known about Campion. William B. Hamilton. The Education...

... the saving grace in a Wodehouse character), even his fluffy-mindedness becomes likable. Wodehouse describes large country houses and castles as en­ thusiastically as Evelyn Waugh does. As he looks at one of them, he visualizes that earlier society in which cottagers in time of danger scuttled to the safety...

... would be known and judged chiefly by South Wind. can the literary historian say of such a book? That it is a twentieth-century version of the fantastic discussion novel, re­ sembling Peacock and foreshadowing Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh? This hardly constitutes a recommendation. Peacock is today...

... at Hollins College. He has written on Everyman, Shakespeare, Donne, Byron, Swift, Dickens, Frost, Waugh, Percy, and Flannery O’Connor. is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City...