A Handful of Mischief

Donat Gallagher teaches in the English Department of James Cook University in North Queensland. Ann Pasternak Slater is the Eardley-Wilmot Fellow in English at St Anne's College, Oxford. John Howard Wilson is associate professor of English at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania.

A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

1 Acknowledgements 2 Abbreviations 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1. Evelyn Waugh, Bookman Chapter 5 2. A Walking Tour of Evelyn Waugh's Oxford Chapter 6 3. "A Later Developement": Evelyn Waugh and Conversion Chapter 7 4."That Glittering, Intangible Western Culture": "Civilizing" Missions and the Crisis of Tradition in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief Chapter 8 5. Sovereign Power in Evelyn Waugh's Edmund Campion and Helena Chapter 9 6. Waffle Scramble: Waugh's Art in Scoop Chapter 10 7. Violence, Duplicity, and Frequent Malversation:Robbery under Law and Evelyn Waugh's Political Critique Chapter 11 8. Homosexuality in Brideshead Revisited:"Something quite remote from anything the [builder] intended" Chapter 12 9. The World's Anachronism: The Timelessness of the Secular in Evelyn Waugh's Helena Chapter 13 10. Guy Crouchback's Disillusion: Crete, Beevor, and the Soviet Alliance in Sword of Honor Chapter 14 11. The BBC Brideshead, 1956, or Whatever Happened to Celia, Sex, and Syphilis? Chapter 15 12. Eyes Reopened:A Tourist in Africa 16 Notes on Contributors 17 Index