"A handful of mischief"
Subtitle: new essays on Evelyn Waugh
By: edited by Donat Gallagher, Ann Slater, and John Howard Wilson
Contributors: Gallagher, Donat; Slater, Ann; Wilson, John Howard, 1961-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780838642740
Subjects: Congresses; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Essays originally presented at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference, held at Hertford College, Oxford, Sept. 24-27, 2003.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Robert Murray Davis; title: Evelyn Waugh, bookman / Richard W. Oram; title: A walking tour of evelyn waugh's oxford / John Howard Wilson; title: "A later development": Evelyn Waugh and conversion / John W. Mahon; title: "That glittering, intangible Western culture": "civilizing" missions and the crisis of tradition in Evelyn Waugh's Black mischief / Lewis Macleod; title: Sovereign power in Evelyn Waugh's Edmund Campion and Helena / Irina Kabanova; title: Waffle scramble: Waugh's art in scoop / Ann Pasternak Slater; title: Violence, duplicity, and frequent malversation: robbery under law and Evelyn Wwaugh's political critique / Baron Alder; title: Homosexuality in Brideshead revisited / Peter G. Christensen; title: The world's anachronism: the timelessness of the secular in Evelyn Waugh's Helena / Marcel Decoste; title: Guy Crouchback's disillusion: Crete, Beevor, and the Soviet alliance in Sword of honour / Donat Gallagher; title: The BBC Brideshead, 1956, or whatever happened to Celia, sex, and syphilis / Patrick Denman Flanery; title: Eyes reopened: a tourist in Africa / Dan S. Kostopulos.