Graham Greene: A Revaluation: New Essays

215 Pages·1990·51.232 MB·English

by  Jeffrey Meyers (eds.)

GRAHAM GREENE: A REVALUATION
GRAHAM GREENE:
A REVALUATION
New Essays
Edited by
JEFFREY MEYERS
Professor of English
University of Colorado
Palgrave Macmillan
Editorial matter, introduction and Chapter 3 ©Jeffrey Meyers 1990; Chapter I©
Donald Greene 1990; Chapter 2 © Eugene Goodheart 1990; Chapter 4 © Roger
Sharrock 1990; Chapter 5 ©John Bayley 1990; Chapter 6 ©Rowland Smith 1990;
Chapter 7 ©Alan Warren Friedman 1990; Chapter 8 © William M. Chace 1990
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Graham Greene: a revaluation: new essays I edited by Jeffrey Meyers.
p. em.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
Contents: I. Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh I Donald Greene-
2. Greene's literary criticism I Eugene Goodheart-3. Greene's
travel books I Jeffrey Meyers-4. Unhappy families I Roger
Sharrock-5. Graham Greene I John Bayley-6. A people's war in
Greeneland I Rowland Smith-7. 'The dangerous edge' I Alan Warren
Friedman-8. Spies and God's spies I William M. Chace.
ISBN 978-0-312-03230-2: $35.00 (est.)
I. Greene, Graham, 1904-- -Criticism and interpretation.
I. Meyers,Jeffrey.
PR6013.R44Z63346 1990
823'.912-dc20 89--6266
CIP
To the memory of Dr. Bernard Meyer
Contents
Notes on the Contributors
IX
Introduction 1
Jeffrey Meyers
1 GRAHAM GREENE AND EVELYN WAUGH:
"CATHOLIC NOVELISTS" 5
Donald Greene
2 GREENE'S LITERARY CRITICISM: THE
RELIGIOUS ASPECT 38
Eugene Goodheart
3 GREENE'S TRAVEL BOOKS 47
Jeffrey Meyers
4 UNHAPPY FAMILIES: THE PLAYS OF
GRAHAM GREENE 68
Roger Sharrock
5 GRAHAM GREENE: THE SHORT STORIES 93
John Bayley
6 A PEOPLE'S WAR IN GREENELAND:
HEROIC VIRTUE AND COMMUNAL
EFFORT IN THE WARTIME TALES lO4
Rowland Smith
7 "THE DANGEROUS EDGE": BEGINNING
WITH DEATH 131
Alan Warren Friedman
Vll
VUl Contents
8 SPIES AND GOD'S SPIES: GREENE'S
ESPIONAGE FICTION 156
William M. Chace
Notes 181
Index 200
Notes on the Contributors
John Bayley is Warton Professor of English Literature and
Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. He is the
author of The Romantic Survival (1956), The Character ofL ove (1960),
Tolstoy and the Novel (1966), Pushkin (1971), The Uses of Division
(1976), An Essay on Hardy (1978), Shakespeare and Tragedy (1981),
Selected Essays (1984), The Order of Battle at Trafalgar (1987) and
The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen (1988).
William M. Chace is Professor of English and President of
Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Political Identities
of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot (1973), Lionel Trilling: Criticism and
Politics (1980), James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays (1974),
An Introduction to Literature (with Peter Collier, 1985), and essays
on Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot,
James Joyce and other figures in twentieth-century English and
American literature. He is now working on a study of the ways
in which the culture of the United States has been subjected to
critical scrutiny in this century.
Alan Warren Friedman, Professor of English at the University
of Texas at Austin, is the author of Lawrence Durrell and the
Alexandria Quartet (1970), Multivalence: The Moral Quality of Form
in the Modern Novel (1978) and William Faulkner (1984), and editor
of Forms of Modern British Fiction (1975), Mario Vargas Llosa: A
Collection of Critical Essays (1978), Critical Essays on Lawrence Durrell
(1987) and Beckett Translating / Translating Beckett (1987).
Eugene Goodheart is the Edytha Macy Gross Professor of
Humanities at Brandeis University. He is the author of The
Utopian Vision of D. H. Lawrence (1963), The Cult of the Ego: The
Self in Modern Literature (1968), Culture and the Radical Conscience
(1973), The Failure of Criticism (1978), The Skeptic Disposition in
Contemporary Criticism (1984) and Pieces of Resistance (1988).
IX
x Notes on the Contributors
Donald Greene is Bing Professor of English Emeritus, University
of Southern California. He has published extensively on eight
eenth-century English literature and intellectual history, and is
the author of The Politics of Samuel johnson (1960), The Age
of Exuberance: Backgrounds of Eighteenth-Century Literature (1970),
Samuel johnson (1970), and editor of Samuel johnson: A Collection of
Critical Essays (1965), Samuel Johnson, Political Writings (1977),
Samueljohnson (The Oxford Authors, 1984). He has also published
articles on Jane Austen, Sinclair Lewis and Donald Davie, and
is a frequent contributor to the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter.
Jeffrey Meyers, Professor of English at the University of
Colorado and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is the
author of several works on T. E. Lawrence and George Orwell;
biographies of Katherine Mansfield (1978), Wyndham Lewis
(1980) and Ernest Hemingway (1985); Fiction and the Colonial
Experience (1973), Painting and the Novel (1975), A Fever at the
Core (1976), Married to Genius (1977), Homosexuality and Literature
(1977), Hemingway: The Critical Heritage (1982), D. H. Lawrence
and the Experience of Italy (1982), Disease and the Novel (1985) and
Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle (1987). He has also
edited Wyndham Lewis: A Revaluation (1980), The Craft of Literary
Biography (1985), D. H. Lawrence and Tradition (1985), The Legacy
of D. H. Lawrence (1987), Robert Lowell: Interviews and Memoirs
(1988) and The Biographer's Art (1988). He is now writing a life
of D. H. Lawrence.
Roger Sharrock is Professor of English Language and Literature
Emeritus at the University of London. His principal publications
include Songs and Comments (1946),john Bunyan (1954, new edition
1968, reissued 1984), Selected Poems of Wordsworth (1958), John
Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1960),John Bunyan, Grace Abound
ing (1962), Selected Poems ofD ryden (1963), Selected Poems and Letters
of Keats (1964), The Pilgrim's Progress (Penguin English Library,
1965), The Pi(grim's Progress (critical study, 1966), The Pelican
Book of English Prose (with Raymond Williams, 1970), The Figure
in a Landscape (1972), English Short Stories of Today (1976), A
Casebook on The Pilgrim's Progress (1976), John Bunyan, The Holy
War (1980), Saints, Sinners and Comedians: The Novels of Graham
Greene (1984) and John Bunyan, Life and Death of Mr. Badman
( 1988).
Notes on the Contributors Xl
Rowland Smith is Professor of English at Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he has been both Chairman of
the English Department and Director of the Centre for African
Studies. His writing, mainly on twentieth-century topics, includes
essays on Commonwealth and modern British literature, particu
larly on the relation of politics and history to imaginative writing.
His Lyric and Polemic: The Literary Personality of Roy Campbell
appeared in 1972. Exile and Tradition: Studies in African and
Caribbean Literature, which he edited, was published in 1976.