Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One - Volume 10 an Anglo-American Tragedy

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 The Loved One provides extensive contextual notes to locate the work in its twentieth-century context.

List of contents

• Introduction


• The Loved One


• Appendix A: Contextual Notes


• Appendix B: Manuscript Development and Textual Variants


• Appendix C: Cyril Connolly's Introduction to Horizon Text


• Appendix D: EW's Preface to the 1965 New Edition

About the author

Adrian Poole is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has strong interests in the traditions of tragedy from the Greeks to the present day and in the afterlives of Shakespeare. His books include Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction and Shakespeare and the Victorians. He has also written extensively on nineteenth-century novelists including Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Stevenson, and James. He is one of the General Editors of the Complete Fiction of Henry James; his edition of The Princess Casamassima won the 2020 MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition.

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 The Loved One provides extensive contextual notes to locate the work in its twentieth-century context.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Poole, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Poole Waugh
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2024
• EAN: 9780198725107
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872510-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 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, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form