contra mundum
Martin Amis observes that Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited “squarely identifies egalitarianism as its foe”. It bemoans the decline of the English nobility: in this sense it becomes a “meditation on the state of England”.
The deep foundations of the country-house novel
The renewed interest in this genre might seem anachronistic, but there are good reasons for its perennial fascination