Is sebastian gay in brideshead revisited

This post is part of a planned action, headed up by Julia Serano. To read other pieces by queer people who are smarter and better writers than me, go to the master post right here. Of late, I have been reading Evelyn Waugh's wondrous masterpiece Brideshead Revisited , which I have mostly known as a touchstone for a lot of my favorite novelists. Lev Grossman always said it was a big influence on The Magicians series, which felt very strange to me until I started reading it.

And for my M. And I may be a long time about it. It gives a summary of my research and makes a similar argument, although it uses The X-Files instead of Brideshead Revisited for its case study. Moreover, as pure movie, it is, in its own way, very interesting, with its own perspective on faith and an unconventional love story.

The first thing you need to know about Brideshead Revisited is that it is a heartbreaking tale of an Oxford dropout who, due to the overbearingness of Catholicism and the slow decay of aristocratic norms, finds himself middle-aged, loveless and alone, commanding a British Army company during World War II. The second thing you need to know is that the book is astonishingly gay. Obsessed with representation and presence and politics, queer stories today lack subtlety and metaphor. Not like Evelyn Waugh could.

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