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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... Victorian dreams , modern realities : Forster's classical imagination 23 50 71 92 94 114 122 220 2 21 2 Conradian alienation and imperial intimacy Friendship's dramatic demise : Heart of Darkness and Under Western Eyes From system to ...
... Victorian dreams , modern realities : Forster's classical imagination 23 50 71 92 94 114 122 220 2 21 2 Conradian alienation and imperial intimacy Friendship's dramatic demise : Heart of Darkness and Under Western Eyes From system to ...
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... Victoria Rosner, and Michael Tratner. Jay Winter has provided endless advice and guidance, as well as a virtual encyclopedia of First World War knowledge. Most recently, Vincent Sherry's invaluable stewardship through the final phase of ...
... Victoria Rosner, and Michael Tratner. Jay Winter has provided endless advice and guidance, as well as a virtual encyclopedia of First World War knowledge. Most recently, Vincent Sherry's invaluable stewardship through the final phase of ...
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... Victorian and early twentieth-century England, as in many literary works of these years, friend- ship took on a heightened and intensified importance, even as its place in personal, social, and narrative desire seemed increasingly ...
... Victorian and early twentieth-century England, as in many literary works of these years, friend- ship took on a heightened and intensified importance, even as its place in personal, social, and narrative desire seemed increasingly ...
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... Victorian conventions of ex- plorer literature and survival narratives surrounding the First World War . It is remarkable how closely Cherry borrows the terms of friendship from the discourse of war , attempting to associate his state ...
... Victorian conventions of ex- plorer literature and survival narratives surrounding the First World War . It is remarkable how closely Cherry borrows the terms of friendship from the discourse of war , attempting to associate his state ...
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... Victorian aesthetes , to imperial explorers , to modernist artist - prophets . One proposition that recurs in many texts ( and not only literary texts ) is that friendship might function as a bridging structure between individuals and ...
... Victorian aesthetes , to imperial explorers , to modernist artist - prophets . One proposition that recurs in many texts ( and not only literary texts ) is that friendship might function as a bridging structure between individuals and ...
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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