Brideshead Revisited (Cultural Reference)

The title of Evelyn Waugh's novel and its well-known television adaptation invoked verbally as a cultural touchstone. The mention functions as a named cultural artifact rather than a described physical object; no book, cover, or printed copy is observed or detailed in the processed material. Characters summon the title to gesture toward elite English mores, memory, and literary taste, using the name itself as a concise index of atmosphere and classed sensibility.

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Purpose

Serve as a verbal cultural reference invoked in dialogue to conjure associations of aristocratic nostalgia, literary prestige, and social atmosphere; used to orient listeners to a particular cultural register.

Significance

Acts as a shorthand that frames characters' values and tastes, signaling cultural literacy and suggesting classed or nostalgic perspectives that shape rhetorical positioning and moral interpretation within the scene.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S1E13 · Take Out The Trash Day

C.J. Assigned the Lydells; Bartlet Postpones Sex‑Ed Decision

Mentioned by Toby as part of a comic assurance of cultural competence ('I was raised on Brideshead Revisited'), the cultural reference functions as rhetorical padding to reassure Bartlet about handling CPB appointees and to humanize Toby's competence.

Before: Referenced culturally; not physically present or handled.

After: Remains a verbal signpost of Toby's confidence; no material change.

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