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

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Cover13; -- 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.

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.

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