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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... characterization – simultaneously too broad and too limiting – has been appropriately critiqued by feminist critics and others on grounds of exclusivity and self-perpetuation, it is not meant to exhaust the period's literary ...
... characterization – simultaneously too broad and too limiting – has been appropriately critiqued by feminist critics and others on grounds of exclusivity and self-perpetuation, it is not meant to exhaust the period's literary ...
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... characterized the love between men as intellectual and pure , an emblem of perfection , he invoked this same tendency to see purity not in opposition to male desire , but as one of its attributes . With heavy emphasis on Plato's ideal ...
... characterized the love between men as intellectual and pure , an emblem of perfection , he invoked this same tendency to see purity not in opposition to male desire , but as one of its attributes . With heavy emphasis on Plato's ideal ...
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... characterized by a kind of excess that clearly conflicted with dominant middle-class morality, the construct of the beloved young male body was more adaptable in the period before Wilde's trials than would be feasible in later decades ...
... characterized by a kind of excess that clearly conflicted with dominant middle-class morality, the construct of the beloved young male body was more adaptable in the period before Wilde's trials than would be feasible in later decades ...
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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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