Waugh On Women
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Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In a literary landscape dominated by towering male voices, Evelyn Waugh's complex, often contradictory portrayals of women stand as one of the most provocative and underexamined dimensions of his celebrated canon. Jacqueline McDonnell's Waugh on Women presents a rigorous and incisive critical study that uncovers the attitudes, archetypes, and anxieties embedded in Waugh's fiction, tracing how his female characters — from the brittle socialites of Vile Bodies to the steadfast figures of Brideshead Revisited — illuminate the author's deeply ambivalent relationship with femininity, class, and Catholicism. McDonnell argues with scholarly authority that Waugh's treatment of women is far more nuanced than his reputation as a misogynist satirist would suggest, situating her analysis within the broader social and cultural upheavals of early-to-mid twentieth-century Britain. Her style is precise and unflinching, dismantling received critical wisdom with carefully marshalled textual evidence. For students of modernist fiction, Waugh devotees, and anyone curious about the intersection of gender and literary genius, this study raises a question that lingers long after the final page: did Waugh fear, admire, or simply fail to understand women — and does the distinction even matter?
Author: Jacqueline Mcdonnell
Format: Hardback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In a literary landscape dominated by towering male voices, Evelyn Waugh's complex, often contradictory portrayals of women stand as one of the most provocative and underexamined dimensions of his celebrated canon. Jacqueline McDonnell's Waugh on Women presents a rigorous and incisive critical study that uncovers the attitudes, archetypes, and anxieties embedded in Waugh's fiction, tracing how his female characters — from the brittle socialites of Vile Bodies to the steadfast figures of Brideshead Revisited — illuminate the author's deeply ambivalent relationship with femininity, class, and Catholicism. McDonnell argues with scholarly authority that Waugh's treatment of women is far more nuanced than his reputation as a misogynist satirist would suggest, situating her analysis within the broader social and cultural upheavals of early-to-mid twentieth-century Britain. Her style is precise and unflinching, dismantling received critical wisdom with carefully marshalled textual evidence. For students of modernist fiction, Waugh devotees, and anyone curious about the intersection of gender and literary genius, this study raises a question that lingers long after the final page: did Waugh fear, admire, or simply fail to understand women — and does the distinction even matter?