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English In The Amazon: Unhomeliness In Evelyn Waugh’S “The Man Who Liked Dickens”, Hannah E. Rau
English In The Amazon: Unhomeliness In Evelyn Waugh’S “The Man Who Liked Dickens”, Hannah E. Rau
The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)
In the short story “The Man Who Liked Dickens,” Evelyn Waugh describes a cultural collision deep in the jungles of Brazil. The story’s narrative centers around two men, one of whom is an Englishman taking what he believes to be a temporary exploratory expedition to Brazil. The other, Mr. McMaster, is a half-Brazilian, half-white landowner who loves the Dickens books he cannot read for himself. Henty, the Englishman, leaves home to escape his wife, who loves another man, and goes on an ill-fated mission to explore the unmapped regions of Brazil. Along the way, he loses his companions and ends …