Table of Contents

Deplorable design, divine providence: Brideshead Revisited and the callings of Charles Ryder. The plasticity of the human: the death of art in The Loved One and Love Among the Ruins. 'A single peculiar act of service': Helena and the stylish pilgrimage of factual faith. The man of letters in middle age: secular perdition and ecclesial art in Scott-King's Modern Europe and The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold . 'It's sauve qui peut now': art's death wish and charity's vocation in the War Trilogy.

About the Author

D. Marcel DeCoste is Associate Professor of English at the University of Regina, Canada, where he teaches twentieth-century British and American literature. He has published and presented widely on Waugh's work.