Knowra Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) was an English novelist, journalist, and travel writer. His fiction ranges from satirical attacks on modern institutions to the Catholic-inflected historical novel Brideshead Revisited .
Decline and Fall : Evelyn Waugh’s 1928 comic novel follows Paul Pennyfeather through the absurdities of English institutions. Waugh’s first novel established the brisk satire of institutions that marked his early fiction.
Lancing College : Lancing College is an independent boarding school in West Sussex, England. Waugh’s school experience supplied settings and social types for his early fiction.
Auberon Waugh : Auberon Waugh was an English journalist and novelist, and the son of Evelyn Waugh. His career extended the Waugh family’s public presence in British journalism.
Travel literature : Travel literature is nonfiction that recounts journeys and interprets places, people, and cultures. Waugh’s travel books combine firsthand observation with the comic voice of his fiction.
English satire : English satire uses humor, irony, and exaggeration to expose folly in social and political life. Waugh became a defining twentieth-century practitioner through his attacks on institutions and fashionable ideals.
A Handful of Dust : Evelyn Waugh’s 1934 novel traces the collapse of an English marriage and the disintegration of its social world. Its bleak ending turns social comedy into a disturbing account of personal ruin.
Hertford College, Oxford : Hertford College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Waugh studied at Hertford, where university life became material for Decline and Fall .
Graham Greene : Graham Greene was an English novelist whose fiction often explored moral conflict and Catholic belief. Greene and Waugh shared Catholic commitments while developing distinct fictional styles.
Journalism : Journalism is the gathering and publication of information about events, issues, and people. Waugh’s reporting informed Scoop and his satirical portrayal of news culture.
Modernism : Modernism was an international movement that challenged traditional forms in art and literature. Waugh’s controlled, lucid prose often stood apart from modernist experiments in narrative form.
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