Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Edmund Campion - Volume 17

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all of Waugh's writings for the first time. This new edition of Edmund Campion provides extensive biographical and contextual notes to help the reader unfamiliar with early modern history.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Edmund Campion


• Appendix A: Contextual Notes


• Appendix B: Manuscript Development and Textual Variants


• Appendix C: Biographical Notes


• Appendix D: 'Preface to American Edition'


• Appendix E: Chronological Bibliography

About the author

Gerard Kilroy, has an MA from Magdalen College, Oxford in both Classics and English. After a PhD at Lancaster, his first book was on the circulation of manuscripts connected with Campion. He won a prize from English Literary Renaissance for his 'Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's 'Directions in the Margent' (2011), a study of the role of the queen's godson in subversive publishing in manuscript and print. His biography of Edmund Campion, A Scholarly Life used many recently discovered manuscripts in Prague and Cieszyn, Poland, to provide a meticulously researched picture of Campion's life. He lectures on religious ideas and biblical sources in Shakespeare.

Summary

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all of Waugh's writings for the first time. This new edition of Edmund Campion provides extensive biographical and contextual notes to help the reader unfamiliar with early modern history.

Product details

• Authors: Evelyn Waugh
• Assisted by: Gerard Kilroy (Editor), Kilroy Gerard (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780198817529
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881752-9
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000