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The End of the Party: The Bright Young People in Vile Bodies, Afternoon Men, and Party Going

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The Bright Young People have largely passed into an object of myth, but there is very little critical scrutiny of their literary representations. In this article I examine Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies, Anthony Powell’s Afternoon Men, and Henry Green’s Party Going for points of contact and similarity. I situate these works among a larger class of Mayfair novels from the time period, establishing as well the literary networks in which the works were published and circulated. I then examine the three novels for their depictions of social class, the status of language and dialect as a separating social force, and the ways in which they struggled to provide realist literary depictions when pitted against emerging technologies like the cinema.
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Marius Hentea. The End of the Party: The Bright Young People in Vile Bodies, Afternoon Men, and Party Going. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 2014, 56 (1), pp.90-111. ⟨10.7560/TSLL56104⟩. ⟨hal-04432481⟩
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