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Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Edmund Campion - Volume 17 (Hardcover)
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Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Edmund Campion - Volume 17 (Hardcover)
Series: The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh
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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unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive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.
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