Bøger af Professor Michael G. (University of Leeds Brennan

Focuses on Graham Greene's use of Catholic and theological issues in his fictions and other writings from the 1920s until the 1980s. This title explores the major issues of Catholic faith and doubt, particularly in relation to his portrayal of secular love and physical desire.

Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family is a wide-ranging survey of the prolific literary career of one of the most popular English writers of the 20th century. Michael G. Brennan here identifies three major themes as central to any understanding of Waugh''s work: Catholicism, society and the concept of family. From Decline and Fall (published in 1928) to his final writings, this book draws not only on the major novels and short stories but also Waugh''s substantial journalistic output, his private journals and correspondences and unpublished draft manuscripts. Through this comprehensive and systematic exploration, Brennan demonstrates the sustained creative importance of Catholicism to Waugh''s literary work. In addition, the book goes on to consider how Evelyn Waugh''s descendants - his son Auberon and his grandson Alexander Waugh - have echoed and developed these literary concerns in their own writing.

"Drawing on the full range of Orwell's public and private writing, Michael Brennan reassesses Orwell's lifelong engagement with religion in his life and work"--