Bibliography

Wölk, Gerhard. "Evelyn Waugh: A Supplementary Checklist of Criticism." Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies 25, No. 2 (Autumn 1991): 7-8.

Compiles significant criticism on Waugh published since 1989.

Wölk, Gerhard. "Evelyn Waugh: A Supplementary Checklist of Criticism." Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies 26, No. 2 (Autumn 1992): 5-6.

Compiles significant criticism on Waugh published since 1990.

Criticism

Babiak, Peter R. "A Brief Philosophy of Stoneless Peaches." Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies 25, No. 3 (Winter 1991): 5.

Postulates that the image of the stoneless peach in Waugh's The Loved One is a metaphor for the tension between nature and culture.

Bittner, David. "Some Questions about Father Rothschild." Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies 27, No. 1 (Spring 1993): 4.

Reexamines Father Rothschild in Vile Bodies, noting possible satiric elements in Waugh's development of the character.

Lassner, Phyllis. "'Between the Gaps': Sex, Class and Anarchy in the British Comic Novel of World War II." In Look Who's Laughing: Gender and Comedy, pp. 205-17. Edited by Gail Finney. Langhorne, Penn.: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1994.

Explores the humor in three British novels about World War II-Waugh's Put Out More Flags, Marghanita Laski's Love on the Supertax (1944), and Beryl Bainbridge's Young Adolf (1978)–as satires of English xenophobia and issues of class and cultural differences.

Loss, Archie. "Vile Bodies, Vorticism, and Italian Futurism." Journal of Modern Literature XVIII, No. 1 (Winter 1992): 155-64.

Argues that Vile Bodies is a premier example of the principles of the early twentieth-century artistic movements Vorticism and Futurism as well as a reflection of Waugh's own artistic direction early in his career.

McCartney, George. "The Being and Becoming of Evelyn Waugh." In Evelyn Waugh: New Directions, pp. 133-55. Edited by Alain Blayac. London: Macmillan, 1992.

Discusses Waugh's philosophical position and its place in his satirical works.

―――――――. "Satire between the Wars: Evelyn Waugh and Others." In The Columbia History of the British Novel, pp. 867-94. Edited by John Richetti. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Analyzes the predominance of satirical works among English writers between the World Wars, and the nature of the satire as an exposition of the superficiality of twentieth-century culture.