Waugh is being exclusionary as part of his process of remembering and remaking, not for its own sake.īut how do you participate in the point of view with this exclusionary world as a woman reader? By deliberately overlooking it, and identifying with Charles or Sebastian or both? Identifying with characters is an important part of reading a novel, and here you can perform a complicated mental process by observing difference, forgetting, attending again, perhaps forgetting again. The burden of the chapter is to establish an atmosphere of aestheticised decadence, weary yet vulnerable. You’re to come away at once, out of danger. Last night it was pullulating with women. I must say the whole of Oxford has become most peculiar suddenly. We were giving a ball….worst of all, the don who lived above me, a mouse of a man connected with the Natural Sciences, had lent his rooms for a Ladies’ Cloakroom, and a printed notice proclaiming this outrage hung not six inches from my oak… Here discordantly, in Eights Week, came a rabble of womankind, some hundreds strong…Echoes of the intruders penetrated every corner, and in my own College was no echo, but an original fount of the grossest disturbance. The university atmosphere is strongly all male, so much so, that when women are invited to social events during Eights Week, Charles and Sebastian view this as an intrusion: 97803162164316216449 Book Title Brideshead Revisited Item Length 9.5in Publisher Little Brown & Company Publication Year 2012 Format Hardcover Language English Item Height 1.6in Author Evelyn Waugh Genre Fiction Topic Classics, Literary Item Width 6.4in Item Weight 21. Waugh’s recreation of Oxford in the 1920s is delicate, sparingly precise, and full of longing.
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