1st Edition

The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh Faith and Art in the Post-War Fiction

By D. Marcel DeCoste Copyright 2015
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waugh’s post-war fiction represents a decline in his powers as a writer, D. Marcel DeCoste offers detailed analyses of Waugh's major works from Brideshead Revisited to Unconditional Surrender. Rather than representing an ill-advised departure from his true calling as an iconoclastic satirist, DeCoste suggests, these novels form a cohesive,... Read more

Deplorable design, divine providence: Brideshead Revisited and the callings of Charles Ryder.  The plasticity of the human: the death of art in The Loved One and Love Among the Ruins.  'A single peculiar act of service': Helena and the stylish pilgrimage of factual faith.  The man of letters in middle age: secular perdition and ecclesial art in Scott-King's Modern Europe and The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold . 'It's sauve qui peut now': art's death wish and charity's vocation in the War Trilogy.

Biography

D. Marcel DeCoste is Associate Professor of English at the University of Regina, Canada, where he teaches twentieth-century British and American literature. He has published and presented widely on Waugh's work.