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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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 to Elizabeth Abel, a model dissertation ...
... 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 to Elizabeth Abel, a model dissertation ...
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... century, purveying an aura of numbness, desperation, and resilience following the Second World War, embodying a position of com- plex national affiliation – nevertheless displays in exceptionally sparse and skeletal terms an idea that ...
... century, purveying an aura of numbness, desperation, and resilience following the Second World War, embodying a position of com- plex national affiliation – nevertheless displays in exceptionally sparse and skeletal terms an idea that ...
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... century, to an image of modernity as reflecting the wreckage of that very ideal. My underlying contention, in essence, is this: that male friendship often occu- pies a complex position in literary works, that it does more than provide ...
... century, to an image of modernity as reflecting the wreckage of that very ideal. My underlying contention, in essence, is this: that male friendship often occu- pies a complex position in literary works, that it does more than provide ...
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Sarah Cole. In addition to Beckett's mid - century songs of intimacy , another pared- down and precarious staging of friendship ... century , both the power and the potential for bereavement associated with male friendship were typically ...
Sarah Cole. In addition to Beckett's mid - century songs of intimacy , another pared- down and precarious staging of friendship ... century , both the power and the potential for bereavement associated with male friendship were typically ...
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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