Evelyn Waugh's Satire: Texts and Contexts

by Naomi Milthorpe

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161147874X
• ISBN13: 9781611478747
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"