Continuity and Autobiography in Evelyn Waugh's War Trilogy

Abstract

<p>This thesis attempts an illustration of Evelyn Waugh's war trilogy as the culmination of characterization, childhood, and militarism are traced throughout the trilogy to reveal a tightly cohesive and unified whole. The manner in which Evelyn Waugh's relationship to his fiction provides his works with unity is also demonstrated. Consequently, this thesis relies heavily upon Waugh's diaries; the raw materials for his trilogy.</p>