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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966)
Titre(s) : Edmund Campion [Texte imprimé] / Evelyn Waugh ; edited by Gerard Kilroy with the assistance of Thomas McCoog, SJ
Titre d'ensemble : The complete works of Evelyn Waugh ; 17
Lien au titre d'ensemble : Appartient à : The complete works of Evelyn Waugh
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2023
Description matérielle : 1 volume (CIII-406 pages) : illustrations, fac-similés. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibliographie pages 403-406. Notes bibliographiques
This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which
brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the
first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of
each text's manuscript development and textual variants. The edition's General Editor
is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume Personal
Writings sequence. Evelyn Waugh originally wrote his Edmund Campion to thank Martin
D'Arcy, SJ, and to help with the building of Campion Hall, but his experience of Communist
oppression in Mexico and Croatia transformed his understanding of Campion's life,
revealing Campion less as an Elizabethan martyr than as part of 'the unending war'
between the church and the totalitarian state. Waugh wrote a passionate new 'Preface'
for the American edition of 1946 and made important changes to each of the three subsequent
editions, culminating in the beautiful third edition of 1961. This new edition provides
extensive biographical and contextual notes to help the reader unfamiliar with early
modern history and records the many manuscript revisions and the book's reception
both sides of the Atlantic. The introduction explores the personal impact of Waugh's
friendship with the Asquith and Herbert families and examines the cultural context
of a brief period of confidence for English Catholicism, energized by the canonization
process (in which Waugh's own daughters were involved), which coincided with the publication
of the five editions of the book from 1935 to 1961. Waugh received the Hawthornden
Prize for the book just before he took part in the opening of Campion Hall; the book
offered him a Jesuit hearth in the 'household of the faith' and gave a new theological
direction to his writing, characterized by Brideshead Revisited, Helena, The Sword
of Honour trilogy, and Ronald Knox. The book emerges as one of the best objets d'Arcy,
which Waugh continued to give to friends till his death
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Kilroy, Gerard (1945-....). Éditeur scientifique
McCoog, Thomas M. (1947-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Campion, Edmond (1540-1581 ; saint)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
272.602 4203092 (23e éd.) = Persécutions contre l'Église romaine par Élisabeth I et les anglicans - Biographie ; 828.912 (23e éd.) = Écrits divers de langue anglaise - 1900-1945 [oeuvre]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198817529 (relié). - ISBN 0198817525 (relié)
EAN 9780198817529
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47107989c
Notice n° :
FRBNF47107989
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