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Originally Posted by lmp
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This is some ways away from Edwardian literature, but perhaps something can be found in Lobdell's theory concerning the relationships of boys and men, an aspect which Tolkien would have found in both his ancient sagas and Edwardian literature.
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Pray might you consider informing us less well informed, as to what you are implying?
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I'm not implying anything, just wondering if Lobdell posits anything about this merry band of brothers who go questing as lads are wont to do.
Chariots of Fire had this feel to it as well as the passing of the privileged class. You could think, too, of Sean Connery--ha, ha, the Scot!--and Michael Caine in the movie of Kipling's
The Man Who Would Be King. Perhaps the feel I am getting from your quotations of Lobdell are best expressed by this description I found for the miniseries
Brideshead Revisited.
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Originally Posted by http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/bridesheadre/bridesheadre.htm
Brideshead Revisited was made by Granada television, scripted by John Mortimer and originally shown on ITV in October 1981. The 11 episode adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel of the same name helped set the tone of a number of subsequent screen presentations of heritage England such as Chariots of Fire (1981), A Jewel in the Crown (1982), A Passage to India (1984), A Room with a View (1986)). These "white flannel" dramas, both on television and on the big screen, represented a yearning for an England that was no more, or never was. Brideshead Revisited opens in England on the eve of the World War II. Charles Ryder (played by Jeremy Irons), the main character and narrator, is presented as a rather incompetent officer in the British Army. He stumbles upon an English country house, which he has visited more than twenty years before. Upon seeing the house, Charles begins to tell the story of his years at Oxford, his meeting Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews) and his love for Julia (Diana Quick). This retrospective narrative is nostalgic in two senses. It is concerned with Charles' nostalgia for his affairs in the interwar period. But it is also concerned with a nostalgia for a time before World War I--a longing for a lost way of life, for an Edwardian England.
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I suppose it is just not helpful discussing a book I haven't read.
