{"product_id":"vocation-of-evelyn-waugh","title":"Vocation of Evelyn Waugh","description":"Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waugh’s post-war fiction represents a decline in his powers as a writer, D. Marcel DeCoste offers detailed analyses of Waugh's major works from Brideshead Revisited to Unconditional Surrender. Rather than representing an ill-advised departure from his true calling as an iconoclastic satirist, DeCoste suggests, these novels form a cohesive, artful whole precisely as they explore the extent to which the writer’s and the Catholic’s vocations can coincide. For all their generic and stylistic diversity, these novels pursue a new, sustained exploration of Waugh’s art and faith both. As DeCoste shows, Waugh offers in his later works an under-remarked meditation on the dangers of a too-avid devotion to art in the context of modern secularism, forging in the second half of his career a literary achievement that both narrates and enacts a contrary, and Catholic, literary vocation.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243214000472,"sku":"9780367879891","price":56.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367879891.jpg?v=1769730317","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/vocation-of-evelyn-waugh","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}