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Titolo |
"A handful of mischief" : new essays on Evelyn Waugh / / edited by Donat Gallagher, Ann Pasternak Slater, and John Howard Wilson |
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Madison [N.J.], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
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Lanham, Md., : Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-61147-049-8 |
1-283-94080-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GallagherDonat |
SlaterAnn |
WilsonJohn Howard <1961-> |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""A Handful of Mischief""; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Evelyn Waugh, Bookman; A Walking Tour of Evelyn Waugh's Oxford; "A Later Development": Evelyn Waugh and Conversion; "That Glittering, Intangible Western Culture": "Civilizing" Missions and the Crisis of Tradition in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief; Sovereign Power in Evelyn Waugh's Edmund Campion and Helena; Waffle Scramble: Waugh's Art in Scoop; Violence, Duplicity, and Frequent Malversation: Robbery under Law and Evelyn Waugh's Political Critique |
Homosexuality in Brideshead Revisited: "Something quite remote from anything the [builder] intended"The World's Anachronism: The Timelessnessof the Secular in Evelyn Waugh's Helena; Guy Crouchback's Disillusion: Crete, Beevor, and the Soviet Alliance in Sword of Honour; The BBC Brideshead, 1956, or Whatever Happened to Celia, Sex, and Syphilis?; Eyes Reopened: A Tourist in Africa; Notes on Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. |
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