Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Robbery Under Law: Volume 24

by Evelyn Waugh, Michael G. Brennan (Editor)

Overview

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part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants.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 is the first fully annotated critical edition of Waugh's book on Mexico, Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson (1939), based on three months' research by Waugh in the country in 1938 and rarely included in later reprints of Waugh's travel writings. Waugh insisted in its opening words: 'This is a political book'; it traced the expropriation of British and American oil interests in Mexico by its repressive Marxist government. It described the current political and social inequities suffered by both its Mexican citizens and foreign companies trading there and also provided a powerful account of the history of Catholic persecution in the country. Its narratives offered an implicit but potent warning about the barbarity of totalitarian regimes as war in Western Europe grew increasingly likely.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198836391
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/24/2023
Series:	The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Evelyn Waugh, ,Michael G. Brennan, Professor of Renaissance Literature, School of English, University of Leeds

Michael G. Brennan is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the School of English, University of Leeds. He has published various books and editions on the writings and history of the Sidney family of Penshurst Place, Kent, and on English travellers on the Continent between 1450 and 1700. He has also published widely on twentieth-century literature, including books on Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, and George Orwell.

Date of Birth:

October 28, 1903

Date of Death:

April 10, 1966

Place of Birth:

West Hampstead, London

Education:

Hertford College, Oxford University, 1921-1924; Heatherley's Art School, 1924

Table of Contents

IntroductionRobbery Under LawAppendix A: EndnotesAppendix B: Manuscript Development and Textual VariantsAppendix C: Glossary of Names