Evelyn Waugh

Ann Pasternak Slater is a Senior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She has taught English Literature at Oxford for forty years, specialising in Renaissance and Twentieth Century Literature. She is on the Editorial Board of the 42-volume scholarly edition of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh, to be published by Oxford University Press and is editing its volume of the Complete Short Fiction.

• AcknowledgementsBiographical OutlineAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Decline and Fall2 Vile Bodies3 Black Mischief4 A Handful of Dust5 Scoop6 Work Suspended7 Put Out More Flags8 Brideshead Revisited9 The Loved One10 Helena11 Men at Arms12 Officers and Gentlemen13 The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold14 Towards Unconditional Surrender15 Unconditional Surrender and Sword of HonourAppendix AAppendix BSelect Bibliography

'Ann Pasternak Slater usefully reverses the main tendency in decades of critical reaction to Evelyn Waugh. Most studies focus on his early works; Pasternak Slater devotes more space to his later novels and demonstrates their increasing complexity in relation to Waugh’s life, historical events, and aesthetic considerations. Comprehensive and well written, this volume is a very welcome addition to the handful of good books about Waugh. Highly recommended.'John Howard Wilson, editor of Evelyn Waugh Studies