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The life of Evelyn Waugh : a critical biography / Douglas Lane Patey.
Author
Patey, Douglas Lane
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
Description
xviii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR6045.A97 Z7494 1998
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Subject(s)
Authors, English
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20th century
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Biography
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Waugh, Evelyn 1903-1966
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Criticism and interpretation
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Waugh, Evelyn 1903-1966
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Biography
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
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Series
Blackwell critical biographies ; 8.
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Blackwell critical biographies ; 8
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Summary note
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).
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ISBN
0631189335 ((acid-free paper))
9780631189336 ((acid-free paper))
LCCN
97015469
OCLC
36842384
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