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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... writers of an earlier generation, as they confronted their own historical and national situations. What this book will undertake is to make cultural and literary sense 1 Introduction ARGUMENT: THE ORGANIZATION OF INTIMACY.
... writers of an earlier generation, as they confronted their own historical and national situations. What this book will undertake is to make cultural and literary sense 1 Introduction ARGUMENT: THE ORGANIZATION OF INTIMACY.
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... cultural settings of late-Victorian and early twentieth-century England, as in many literary works of these years, friendship took on a heightened and intensified importance, even as its place in personal, social, and narrative desire ...
... cultural settings of late-Victorian and early twentieth-century England, as in many literary works of these years, friendship took on a heightened and intensified importance, even as its place in personal, social, and narrative desire ...
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... cultural narratives as imperialism and war, and the sense of heightened importance that friendship often projected derived from those weighty connections. For Beckett and Cherry, then, friendship matters in part because Introduction 3.
... cultural narratives as imperialism and war, and the sense of heightened importance that friendship often projected derived from those weighty connections. For Beckett and Cherry, then, friendship matters in part because Introduction 3.
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... cultural values. I shall use the phrase “the organization of intimacy” as a kind of shorthand for the process of fixing and structuring male bonds that prevailed among writers in this period, from late-Victorian aesthetes, to imperial ...
... cultural values. I shall use the phrase “the organization of intimacy” as a kind of shorthand for the process of fixing and structuring male bonds that prevailed among writers in this period, from late-Victorian aesthetes, to imperial ...
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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