A Handful of Mischief
A Handful of Mischief
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A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford, in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The essays cover a wide range of material, from Waughs early novel Black Mischief (1932) to his last travel book, A Tourist in Africa (1960). In addition to essays on well-known novels such as Scoop (1938), Brideshead Revisited (1945), and Helena (1950), the collection includes papers on Waughs library, his changing conception of Oxford, his writing about religious conversion, and his role in the British evacuation of Crete in 1941. The authors approach Waugh and his work in various ways, and innovative essays explore sovereignty, post-colonialism, and adaptation for radio.
About the Author
About the Author
<p><strong>Donat Gallagher</strong> teaches in the English Department of James Cook University in North Queensland.<br /><br><strong>Ann Pasternak Slater</strong> is the Eardley-Wilmot Fellow in English at St Annes College, Oxford.<br /><br><strong>John Howard Wilson</strong> is associate professor of English at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
Table of Content
Table of Content
<p>1 Acknowledgements<br /><br>2 Abbreviations<br /><br>3 Introduction<br /><br>Chapter 4 1. Evelyn Waugh, Bookman<br /><br>Chapter 5 2. A Walking Tour of Evelyn Waughs Oxford<br /><br>Chapter 6 3. "A Later Developement": Evelyn Waugh and Conversion<br /><br>Chapter 7 4."That Glittering, Intangible Western Culture": "Civilizing" Missions and the Crisis of Tradition in Evelyn Waughs <em>Black Mischief</em><br /><br>Chapter 8 5. Sovereign Power in Evelyn Waughs <em>Edmund Campion</em> and <em>Helena</em><br /><br>Chapter 9 6. Waffle Scramble: Waughs Art in <em>Scoop</em><br /><br>Chapter 10 7. Violence, Duplicity, and Frequent Malversation:<em>Robbery under Law</em> and Evelyn Waughs Political Critique<br /><br>Chapter 11 8. Homosexuality in <em>Brideshead Revisited</em>:"Something quite remote from anything the [builder] intended"<br /><br>Chapter 12 9. The Worlds Anachronism: The Timelessness of the Secular in Evelyn Waughs <em>Helena</em><br /><br>Chapter 13 10. Guy Crouchbacks Disillusion: Crete, Beevor, and the Soviet Alliance in <em>Sword of Honor</em><br /><br>Chapter 14 11. The BBC <em>Brideshead</em>, 1956, or Whatever Happened to Celia, Sex, and Syphilis?<br /><br>Chapter 15 12. Eyes Reopened:<em>A Tourist in Africa</em><br /><br>16 Notes on Contributors<br /><br>17 Index</p><br>
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