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The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision: Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and Fall
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Acknowledgements xv
- Introduction xvii
- Tom Jones and the Odyssey 1
- Tristram Shandy and the Art of Gossip 21
- “Female Difficulties” Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote and Frances Burney’s Camilla 35
- Waverley and the Aeneid: Scott’s Art of Allusion 55
- Jane Austen and the Pleasure Principle 75
- Asking versus Telling: One Aspect of Jane Austen’s Idea of Conversation 95
- “A Contrariety of Emotion” Jane Austen’s Ambivalent Lovers in Pride and Prejudice 117
- Once More, with Feeling: The Structure of Mansfield Park 129
- Comic Symmetry in Jane Austen’s Emma 145
- “The Sentient Target of Death” Jane Austen’s Prayers 163
- The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision: Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and Fall 181
- Traditional Comedy and the Comic Mask in Kingsley Amis’s 203
- Afterword 221
- Works Cited 225
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Acknowledgements xv
- Introduction xvii
- Tom Jones and the Odyssey 1
- Tristram Shandy and the Art of Gossip 21
- “Female Difficulties” Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote and Frances Burney’s Camilla 35
- Waverley and the Aeneid: Scott’s Art of Allusion 55
- Jane Austen and the Pleasure Principle 75
- Asking versus Telling: One Aspect of Jane Austen’s Idea of Conversation 95
- “A Contrariety of Emotion” Jane Austen’s Ambivalent Lovers in Pride and Prejudice 117
- Once More, with Feeling: The Structure of Mansfield Park 129
- Comic Symmetry in Jane Austen’s Emma 145
- “The Sentient Target of Death” Jane Austen’s Prayers 163
- The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision: Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and Fall 181
- Traditional Comedy and the Comic Mask in Kingsley Amis’s 203
- Afterword 221
- Works Cited 225