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Then Waugh was for graduate students, an interesting second-generation modernist and stylist for undergraduates, Waugh was more or less a museum piece, a conservative writer of little relevance to the concerns of the sixties and seventies.īut Thatcher, Reagan, Bush, and events in Eastern Europe have changed all that. Years ago I published my first article-in MFS -the consequence of taking within a single year courses in Victorian and Modern literature and noticing the way Waugh deployed Eliot, Conrad, Dickens, and Tennyson in A Handful of Dust. The mispronunciation made clear that it neither started in nor was bounded by academia. The shorter asked the taller, "Evelyn Wug, have you read him?" "No," the other replied "Isn't it Waugh? I've only seen, what is it- A Handful of Dust?" Next to me were two young women students. Sometime late in the eighties after Brideshead appeared on TV and Handful of Dust played the movie houses, I was browsing St.
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