What Waugh Saw in America.

WAUGH, Evelyn, 1903-1966; NOVELISTS; HUMANITY; INTERMENT; AMERICANISM (Catholic controversy); CHRISTIANITY; CATHOLIC Church

The article explores the perspective of novelist Evelyn Waugh on the U.S. Topics discussed include Waugh's lament about the intrinsic humanity in the life of Hollywood film stars, the burial customs that Waugh reincarnated in "The Loved One" and his grotesque send up of the New Word's artificial mastery of death in the novel, Waugh's dislike of dogmas and his view of America's founders as doctrinaire liberals, the role of Christianity, and Catholicism and his notion of Americanism.