Brideshead Revisited
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Brideshead Revisited is a classic mid-20th-century English novel that explores themes of faith, memory, and the decline of the British aristocracy through the narrator’s complex relationship with the aristocratic Flyte family.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brideshead Revisited canonical | 20 |
| Brideshead Revisited (novel) | 5 |
| Brideshead Revisited universe | 2 |
| Book Two: Brideshead Deserted | 1 |
| Brideshead | 1 |
| Brideshead Revisited (1945 novel) | 1 |
| Lord Sebastian Flyte | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British novel
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Catholic novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
Brideshead Revisited (TV, 1981)
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surface form:
Brideshead Revisited (1981 television serial)
film "Brideshead Revisited" (2008) ⓘ
surface form:
Brideshead Revisited (2008 film)
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| author | Evelyn Waugh ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
Roman Catholicism
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addiction ⓘ decline of the British aristocracy ⓘ faith ⓘ grace ⓘ homosocial relationships ⓘ memory ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| firstAdaptationYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age novel
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historical novel ⓘ novel of manners ⓘ religious fiction ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | depictions of English Catholic aristocracy in fiction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Book One: Et in Arcadia Ego
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Book Three: A Twitch upon the Thread ⓘ Brideshead Revisited self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Book Two: Brideshead Deserted
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| hasSetting |
Brideshead Castle
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surface form:
Brideshead Castle (fictional country house)
England ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ
surface form:
Oxford University
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| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Catholic literary revival ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Brideshead family
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Charles Ryder ⓘ Cordelia Flyte ⓘ Julia Flyte ⓘ Lady Marchmain ⓘ Lord Marchmain ⓘ Sebastian Flyte ⓘ |
| narrator | Charles Ryder ⓘ |
| notablePublisher |
Chapman and Hall
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surface form:
Chapman & Hall
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| publicationYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Chapman and Hall
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surface form:
Chapman & Hall
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| settingPeriod |
World War II
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interwar period ⓘ |
| structure |
first-person narrative
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frame narrative ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfEvents |
1920s
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1930s ⓘ early 1940s ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Faulks on Fiction
this entity surface form:
Brideshead Revisited (novel)
this entity surface form:
Brideshead Revisited (novel)
subject surface form:
Brideshead Revisited (2008 film)
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Brideshead Revisited (novel)
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Book Two: Brideshead Deserted
subject surface form:
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
this entity surface form:
Brideshead
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Brideshead Revisited universe
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Lord Sebastian Flyte
this entity surface form:
Brideshead Revisited universe
this entity surface form:
Brideshead Revisited (novel)
this entity surface form:
Brideshead Revisited (1945 novel)
this entity surface form:
Brideshead Revisited (novel)