#Julian Fellowes pays them lip service while pointedly refusing to accept their import

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Reading a review of a critical Auden biography vis-a-vis the idea of England and "national feeling" and unfortunately as you probably already know. Downton Abbey is the pastoral fantasy that refuses to acknowledge the historical realities of its context or the material conditions necessary for its realization/continuous re-enactment over-against its historical realities, but those tensions churn subtextually under its veneer and burst through, by accident, every so often