The life of Evelyn Waugh : a critical biography / Douglas Lane Patey.

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Patey, Douglas Lane [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
Description
xviii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    In this lively account, biographer Patey follows Evelyn Waugh's career from the comfortable middle-class home he was anxious to flee, through his escapades at Oxford, his adventures in South America and Africa, his experience of war, to his last years as veiled autobiographer. In the process, the author explores the nature of Waugh's Catholicism and examines how his religious beliefs began to guide his novelistic practice. Arguing that Waugh's novels, like his travel writing and even his biographies, are consistently autobiographical, Patey draws out the connections between the life and the work through a series of compelling chapters. At the center of his account is the view that Waugh's novels contain detailed spiritual and artistic self-analysis, usually in the form of rejection and atonement.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-423) and index.
    Contents
    • Becoming modern (1903-1930)
    • The doom of youth : 'Decline and Fall' and 'Vile Bodies'
    • Political decade-I (1930-1935)
    • Political decade-II (1935-1939)
    • A people's war (1939-1945)
    • 'Brideshead Revisited'
    • A people's peace (1945-1950)
    • The post of honour is a private station (1948-1953)
    • Retrospective : shaping a life (1953-1966).
    ISBN
    • 0631189335 ((acid-free paper))
    • 9780631189336 ((acid-free paper))
    LCCN
    97015469
    OCLC
    36842384
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