Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World WarSarah Cole examines the rich literary and cultural history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century. Cole approaches this complex and neglected topic from many perspectives - as a reflection of the exceptional social power wielded by the institutions that housed and structured male bonds; as a matter of closeted and thwarted homoerotics; as part of the story of the First World War. Cole shows that the terrain of masculine fellowship provides an important context for understanding key literary features of the modernist period. She foregrounds such crucial themes as the over-determined relations between imperial wanderers in Conrad's tales, the broken friendships that permeate Forster's fictions, Lawrence's desperate urge to make culture out of blood brotherhood and the intense bereavement of the war poet. Cole argues that these dramas of compelling and often tortured male friendship have helped to define a particular spirit and voice within the literary canon. |
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... British history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Catherine Gallagher, an intellectual mentor from my first days in graduate school, seemed unable to give anything but bril- liant advice. Finally, I want to express my gratitude ...
... British history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Catherine Gallagher, an intellectual mentor from my first days in graduate school, seemed unable to give anything but bril- liant advice. Finally, I want to express my gratitude ...
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... British culture, and the transformations it entailed had lasting consequences for the way intimacy and lost friends were represented in post- war contexts. Combat was not the only forum in which male intimacy was elevated and tested ...
... British culture, and the transformations it entailed had lasting consequences for the way intimacy and lost friends were represented in post- war contexts. Combat was not the only forum in which male intimacy was elevated and tested ...
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... British culture had allied male friendship with conventional forms of domestic, imperial, and military ideology, these writers, working close to the Victorian threshold (in spirit if not always in time), embraced the concept of male ...
... British culture had allied male friendship with conventional forms of domestic, imperial, and military ideology, these writers, working close to the Victorian threshold (in spirit if not always in time), embraced the concept of male ...
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... British cultural politics required more extensive delineation. Similarly, the type of ma- terial under consideration varies with each chapter. The first chapter aims at both center and margin with respect to late-Victorian masculinity ...
... British cultural politics required more extensive delineation. Similarly, the type of ma- terial under consideration varies with each chapter. The first chapter aims at both center and margin with respect to late-Victorian masculinity ...
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... British Museum standing as perhaps the signal aesthetic/cultural event.10 It may seem surprising, today, to recognize how strongly Hellenism impressed many Victorian intellectuals as a viable idea to help combat a sense of cultural ...
... British Museum standing as perhaps the signal aesthetic/cultural event.10 It may seem surprising, today, to recognize how strongly Hellenism impressed many Victorian intellectuals as a viable idea to help combat a sense of cultural ...
Contents
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CHAPTER 2 Conradian alienation and imperial intimacy | 92 |
friendship and comradeship at war | 138 |
DHLawrence and the aftermath of war | 185 |
Notes | 252 |
Index | 292 |
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