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 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990 978-0-333-45895-2 All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1990 ISBN 978-1-349-10017-0 ISBN 978-1-349-10015-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-10015-6 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.