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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... combat , at times even competing with the war for the position of most - harrowing trial and most grievous loss of friends . Cherry's text indicates a central point that will ramify widely in the pages that follow : in the early ...
... combat , at times even competing with the war for the position of most - harrowing trial and most grievous loss of friends . Cherry's text indicates a central point that will ramify widely in the pages that follow : in the early ...
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... Combat was not the only forum in which male intimacy was elevated and tested, but it became a kind of standard, as well as a metaphor, for the most resilient, cherished, and vulnerable of bonds. Moreover, given the sense of cataclysmic ...
... Combat was not the only forum in which male intimacy was elevated and tested, but it became a kind of standard, as well as a metaphor, for the most resilient, cherished, and vulnerable of bonds. Moreover, given the sense of cataclysmic ...
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... combat the force of the colonial machine. Forster's texts often represent modernity as a form of dislocated and friendless masculinity, as he sets in motion a transformation of Victorian conventions for safeguarding male love into ...
... combat the force of the colonial machine. Forster's texts often represent modernity as a form of dislocated and friendless masculinity, as he sets in motion a transformation of Victorian conventions for safeguarding male love into ...
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... combat shaped the response to conflicts throughout the twentieth century. An outpouring of literature and film about the Vietnam War, the memorial landscape that has grown up around many modern calamities, popular rhetoric surrounding ...
... combat shaped the response to conflicts throughout the twentieth century. An outpouring of literature and film about the Vietnam War, the memorial landscape that has grown up around many modern calamities, popular rhetoric surrounding ...
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... combat a sense of cultural deterioration and to compete with dominant values surrounding Christianity, capitalism, and the middle-class family. Without abandoning the framework of the Judeo-Christian tradition, many thinkers across the ...
... combat a sense of cultural deterioration and to compete with dominant values surrounding Christianity, capitalism, and the middle-class family. Without abandoning the framework of the Judeo-Christian tradition, many thinkers across the ...
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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