Evelyn Waugh's satire : texts and contexts / Naomi Milthorpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milthorpe, Naomi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966--Criticism and interpretation.

Waugh, Evelyn.

Satire, English--History and criticism.

Satire, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 pages)

Place of Publication:

Madison, [Wisconsin] ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Waugh is a perennial subject for literary scholars; most studies published in the past thirty years take a strongly biographical approach, using Waugh's life and faith as lenses through which to critique the fiction. Evelyn Waugh's Satire takes a different approach: using frameworks of modernist studies, intertextuality, satire theory, and the contexts of the interwar period, Milthorpe renews debates about the targets and tactics of Waugh's satire."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction satire, texts and contexts

England and the Octopus: decline and fall

Real tears: Vile Bodies and the Apes of God

Collecting material: Black Mischief, Scoop and Cold Comfort Farm

Blow the whole thing sky-high: A Handful of dust

Divided we stand, united we fall: put out more flags and Scott-King's modern Europe

Half in love with easeful death: the loved one and love among the ruins

Conscious imposture: the ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Coda the Rake's Regress: "Basil Seal rides again".

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61147-875-8