Vile Bodies
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Vile Bodies is a satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh that portrays the reckless, hedonistic lifestyle of England’s interwar “Bright Young Things.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vile Bodies canonical | 5 |
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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satirical novel ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseDate | 2003 ⓘ |
| adaptationType | film ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Stephen Fry ⓘ |
| author | Evelyn Waugh ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Agatha Runcible
ⓘ
Colonel Blount ⓘ Father Rothschild ⓘ Mrs. Melrose Ape ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| depicts | Bright Young Things ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| followedBy | Black Mischief ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy of manners
ⓘ
satire ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Bright Young Things
ⓘ
surface form:
Bright Young Things (film)
|
| hasISBN | 9780316926119 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | key work in Evelyn Waugh's early comic phase ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Adam Fenwick-Symes
ⓘ
Nina Blount ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fragmented, fast-paced narrative style
ⓘ
portrayal of London high society in the 1920s ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Chapman and Hall ⓘ |
| precededBy | Decline and Fall ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1930 ⓘ |
| setInCountry | England ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
celebrity culture
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tabloid journalism ⓘ youth culture in interwar Britain ⓘ |
| theme |
disillusionment after World War I
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hedonism ⓘ moral decay ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| timeSetting | late 1920s ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | Biblical phrase "vile body" from the King James Bible ⓘ |
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh