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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 518 pages, height x width x depth: 229x159x32 mm, weight: 871 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 18-Sep-2008
  • Izdevniecība: Axios Press
  • ISBN-10: 1604190019
  • ISBN-13: 9781604190014
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 518 pages, height x width x depth: 229x159x32 mm, weight: 871 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 18-Sep-2008
  • Izdevniecība: Axios Press
  • ISBN-10: 1604190019
  • ISBN-13: 9781604190014
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Keywords:
Children of the Sun is a story of brilliant and later famous young people who deliberately chose decadence as an alternative lifestyle. The setting is England between World War I and World War II. The cast of characters includes Evelyn Waugh, Randolph Churchill, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Cecil Beaton among others.
Acknowledgments xi
Illustrations xiii
Prologue A Visit to La Pietra 1
Chapter One Children of the Sun 9
Definitions and Perspectives
9
Dandyismin the 19th Century
25
The Commedia Dell'arte and the Ballet
35
Chapter Two England in 1918 47
The Men of Action
Fathers and Sons
47
Uncles for Rogues
64
The Men of Feeling
The Undermining of the Fathers
70
Uncles for Dandies
79
The Defiance of the Fathers
89
Chapter Three The New Dandies Arrive 97
Chapter Four 1918-1922: Eton 127
Brian and Harold and Their School
127
Other Etonians
141
Raising the Banner of Art
154
Chapter Five 1922-1925: Oxford 165
Brian and Harold at Oxford
165
The Larger Scene
184
New Friends
191
Other Undergraduates
206
The Dandies' Rivals and Enemies
210
Chapter Six 1915-1931: London 217
Brian and Harold in London
217
New Friends and Allies
231
Waugh and British Dandyism
240
Enemies and Rivals
258
Brian's and Harold's Careers
264
Chapter Seven 1932-1939: Chinese Philosophy and German Politics 279
Brian and Harold in the '30's
279
Men of the '30's
291
Auden and Company
303
Old Friends
317
Aesthetes and Anti-Aesthetes
321
Chapter Eight 1939-1945: The War 333
Harold and the Patriots
333
Brian and the Traitors
347
The Manhattan Project
355
Waugh and Old Friends
363
Orwell and Old Enemies
369
Chapter Nine 1945—1951: Exile and the Decay of Hope 375
The National Trauma
375
Harold Acton and the Right
382
Brian Howard and the Left
391
Guy Burgess and Politics
395
The Manhattan Project
402
Aesthetes and Anti-Aesthetes
406
Chapter Ten 1951-1957: Aging and Suicide 413
Acton and Howard and England
413
Waugh and the Others
418
New Voices
415
Trouble in Institutions
432
Aesthetes and Anti-Aesthetes
438
Chapter Eleven Confessions and Conclusions 441
The Critic's Conversation with Himself
441
The Second Conversation
450
The Third Conversation
456
Appendix A A Dramatis Personae 463
Appendix B Children of the Sun: A Short History of the Concept 467
Bibliography 475
Notes 477
Permissions 491
Index 493