The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh

Rossetti His Life and Works: Volume 16

Evelyn Waugh, Michael G. Brennan

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Oxford University Press
28 September 2017

Art & design styles: Pre-Raphaelite art; Biography: arts & entertainment; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Prose: non-fiction; Literary studies: from c 1900 -

Series: The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh

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part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants.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.

This, Waugh's first published book, marked the centenary of the birth of the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). Waugh was fascinated by the bohemian lives of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, and by his own family connection with them (William Holman Hunt had married, successively, two cousins of his grandfather). Rossetti is both compassionate towards its subject and critical of his self-destructive nature. The incisive analysis of Rossetti's painterly techniques contributed to the resurgence of public interest in Rossetti's art and poetry. The biography was also an early expression of Waugh's lifelong interest in narrative art, and laid the foundations for his own belief in the importance of the spiritual as well as the aesthetic vision of the artist. Although Rossetti was hastily compiled, it is nevertheless elegant and witty.

By: Evelyn Waugh
Edited by: Michael G. Brennan
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 25mm, Width: 222mm, Spine: 144mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199683574
ISBN 10: 0199683573
Series: The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 28 September 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The History of the Text The Genesis of the Text Publication History The Text in History Cultural Context Reception of Rossetti Context of Waugh's Other Work and of Literary History A Note on the Texts Rossetti His Life and Works Abbreviations Appendix A Endnotes Appendix B Manuscript Development and Textual Variants (MDATV) Appendix C Glossary of Names Appendix D Rossetti's Pictures Appendix E 1928 and Earlier Works by and about Rossetti Index

Michael G. Brennan was educated at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and has taught at the University of Leeds since 1984. His research interests encompass the sixteenth, seventeenth, and twentieth centuries and he has published books on the writings and public careers of the Sidneys of Penshurst between 1500 and 1700, Renaissance travel writings, and the interaction of religion and literary creativity in the works of Graham Greene, George Orwell, and Evelyn Waugh. He has also recently published a book on Graham Greene and politics.

Reviews for The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Rossetti His Life and Works: Volume 16

A must read. * David Sexton, Evening Standard * As a scholarly treatment of a modern British novelist, The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh looks as if it will stand in a class of its own, not only for its presentation of definitive texts but also for its patient accumulation of large amounts of personal material that have hitherto escaped the biographers' gaze. * D.J Taylor, Literary Review * a welcome opportunity to look again at [Waugh's] evolution as a writer and thinke...These volumes reveal different aspects of Waugh's youthful plasticity and show how his adult persona developed as he tested himself as a write [...] a major event in Waugh scholarship, and...an essential research resource for many years to come. * Lisa Mullen, Worcester College, Oxford, Essays in Criticism *