Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts

Synopsis

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.-- 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. Naomi Milthorpe. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.