About this ebook
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 Waugh's 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 Waugh's 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. Contributors: Baron Alder, Peter G. Christensen, Robert Murray Davis, Marcel DeCoste, Patrick Denman Flanery, Donat Gallagher, Irina Kabanova, Dan S. Kostopulos, Lewis MacLeod, John W. Mahon, Richard W. Oram, Ann Pasternak Slater, John Howard Wilson.
About the author
Donat Gallagher teaches in the English Department of James Cook University in North Queensland. He has edited The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waughand has published widely in areas where Waugh became involved in public controversy. Ann Pasternak Slater is the Eardley-Wilmot Fellow in English at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is the editor of Evelyn Waugh's Complete Short Stories (Everyman's Library, 1998) and Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One and The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (Everyman's Library, 2003). John Howard Wilson is associate professor of English at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. He has published two volumes of a literary biography of Evelyn Waugh, and he edits Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies.
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