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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... aesthetic movements like the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and the work of such social reform- ers as Thomas Hill Green at the end of the century present influential examples of a cultural politics organized around idealized male fraterni ...
... aesthetic movements like the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and the work of such social reform- ers as Thomas Hill Green at the end of the century present influential examples of a cultural politics organized around idealized male fraterni ...
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... : an increased prominence accorded to male love and de- sire at many levels – cultural, discursive, medical, aesthetic, and personal; followed by and/or conjoined with an increasingly stifling and punitive Introduction 9.
... : an increased prominence accorded to male love and de- sire at many levels – cultural, discursive, medical, aesthetic, and personal; followed by and/or conjoined with an increasingly stifling and punitive Introduction 9.
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... aesthetic of pain. definitions and choices: modernism, modernity, literary authority Over the course of this discussion, I will be using three interrelated terms that warrant clarification from the outset: “modernism,” “modernity,” and ...
... aesthetic of pain. definitions and choices: modernism, modernity, literary authority Over the course of this discussion, I will be using three interrelated terms that warrant clarification from the outset: “modernism,” “modernity,” and ...
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... aesthetic criticism of the 1870s–1890s; in my discussion of imperial friendship, I rely primarily on literary and other highly visible texts, including the famous travel narratives of the mid nineteenth century, to set up the paradigms ...
... aesthetic criticism of the 1870s–1890s; in my discussion of imperial friendship, I rely primarily on literary and other highly visible texts, including the famous travel narratives of the mid nineteenth century, to set up the paradigms ...
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... and their country preoccupied many Britons , and this issue of " fit " had various manifestations - political , aesthetic , social , and personal. A renewed assessment of male comradeship and troubling new 18 Introduction.
... and their country preoccupied many Britons , and this issue of " fit " had various manifestations - political , aesthetic , social , and personal. A renewed assessment of male comradeship and troubling new 18 Introduction.
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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