Brideshead Revisited | Brideshead Revisited and the Modern Historicization of Memory
In the following essay, David Rothstein examines "the ways in which Brideshead Revisited is preoccupied with the issue of preserving Catholic identity and Catholic memory."
In a 1969 article, "The Uses of History in Fiction," based on a panel discussion at a meeting of the Southern Historical Association, C. Van Woodward notes that, "Over the last two centuries, novels have become increasingly saturated with history, and novelists have been becoming ever more deeply historically conscious. In a sense, all novels are historical novels. They all seek to understand, to describe, to recapture the past, however remote, however recent." Woodward and the other participants in this discussion go on to talk about the relations between storytelling and...
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