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To approach Brideshead Revisited is to enter a layered architecture: a country house that is also a theology, a love story that is also a meditation on class, and a memoir that is also an argument about memory. Evelyn Waugh published the novel in 1945, in the wreckage of war and rationing; he later prunedContinue reading “Brideshead Revisited: Memory, Grace, and the Politics of Nostalgia”