The picturesque prison : Evelyn Waugh and his writing / Jeffrey Heath.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Heath, Jeffrey M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Authors, English--20th century--Biography.
• Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966.

Physical Description:

xviii, 334 p. : port. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kingston, [Ont.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study of the life and works of Evelyn Waugh traces the novelist's pursuit of his vocation and his long retreat from a world which he came to regard as a spiritual dungeon. Jeffrey Heath explores the paradoxical elements in Waugh's career: his quest for a refuge itself proved to be a prison and his devotion to the Augustan graces was accompanied by a lasting attraction to a Dionysiac age without restratint. The deep cleft in Waugh's nature imbued his art with the characteristic quirky complexity which has fascinated many readers, but it left him a choleric and melancholy man who never fully accepted his calling as a writer.

Contents:

• Intro
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• 1. Vocation
• 2. God and Taste
• 3. The Artist
• 4. The Man and the Critics
• 5. Decline and Fall
• 6. Vile Bodies
• 7. Black Mischief
• 8. A Handful of Dust
• 9. Scoop
• 10. Work Suspended
• 11. Put Our More Flags
• 12. Brideshead Revisited
• 13. Scott-King's Modern Europe
• 14. The Loved One
• 15. Helena
• 16. Love Among the Ruins
• 17. The War Trilogy: Introduction
• 18. Men at Arms
• 19. Officers and Gentlemen
• 20. Unconditional Surrender
• 21. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
• 22. Epilogue
• TEXTUAL NOTE
• NOTES
• INDEX
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• Y
• Z.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 1-282-85064-4
• 9786612850646
• 0-7735-6088-2

OCLC:

929121528