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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... conventional literary authority, represented, for instance, by the realist con- ventions of the nineteenth-century novel or the egotistical sublime of the Romantic lyric, and vigorously created new forms of language to fill that void ...
... conventional literary authority, represented, for instance, by the realist con- ventions of the nineteenth-century novel or the egotistical sublime of the Romantic lyric, and vigorously created new forms of language to fill that void ...
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... conventional forms of domestic, imperial, and military ideology, these writers, working close to the Victorian threshold (in spirit if not always in time), embraced the concept of male fellowship just as that larger value-system was ...
... conventional forms of domestic, imperial, and military ideology, these writers, working close to the Victorian threshold (in spirit if not always in time), embraced the concept of male fellowship just as that larger value-system was ...
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Sarah Cole. conventional sanctifying forms. These threshold modernists thus offer an especially revealing window into their own authorizing strategies, and they provide interesting foils for more radical modernists who will, at times ...
Sarah Cole. conventional sanctifying forms. These threshold modernists thus offer an especially revealing window into their own authorizing strategies, and they provide interesting foils for more radical modernists who will, at times ...
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... conventional narrative style, Forster is often figured as something of a latter-day Victorian, and the paradigm-shattering developments of high modernism seem far distant. Though Forster might address problems of modern existence with ...
... conventional narrative style, Forster is often figured as something of a latter-day Victorian, and the paradigm-shattering developments of high modernism seem far distant. Though Forster might address problems of modern existence with ...
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... conventional religious discourse, he consis- tently presents his goal in terms of its potential to transform ... conventionally conceived in the late nineteenth century – sensitive, intelligent, misunderstood by his contemporaries – he ...
... conventional religious discourse, he consis- tently presents his goal in terms of its potential to transform ... conventionally conceived in the late nineteenth century – sensitive, intelligent, misunderstood by his contemporaries – he ...
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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