Book One: Et in Arcadia Ego

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book section part of novel

Book One: Et in Arcadia Ego is the opening section of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited, introducing the central characters and the nostalgic, elegiac tone of the story.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book section ⓘ
part of novel ⓘ
associatedWithAuthorReligion Roman Catholicism of Evelyn Waugh ⓘ
author Evelyn Waugh NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
frameNarrativeTime Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ
functionInNarrative establishes central relationships ⓘ
establishes reflective frame narrative ⓘ
genre Catholic novel component ⓘ
bildungsroman component ⓘ
novel section ⓘ
social satire component ⓘ
introducesCharacter Brideshead (the elder son) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Julia Flyte NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lady Marchmain NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lord Marchmain (in recollection) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sebastian Flyte NERFINISHED ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryForm prose ⓘ
literaryMovement 20th-century British literature ⓘ
mainCharacter Charles Ryder NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sebastian Flyte NERFINISHED ⓘ
members of the Flyte family ⓘ
narrativePerspective first-person ⓘ
narrator Charles Ryder NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf Brideshead Revisited NERFINISHED ⓘ
publicationYearOfContainingWork 1945 ⓘ
setting Brideshead Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ
Oxford University NERFINISHED ⓘ
structuralRole opening section of Brideshead Revisited ⓘ
theme Catholicism NERFINISHED ⓘ
aestheticism ⓘ
class and aristocracy ⓘ
decadence ⓘ
friendship ⓘ
lost youth ⓘ
memory ⓘ
nostalgia ⓘ
religion ⓘ
timePeriod 1920s ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ
titleAlludesTo the presence of death in idyllic settings ⓘ
titleLanguage Latin ⓘ
titleMeaning "Even in Arcadia, there am I" ⓘ
tone elegiac ⓘ
nostalgic ⓘ
workContainedIn Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder NERFINISHED ⓘ

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