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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... discussion which had a significant impact on this project. Sheldon Rothblatt in the History Department was a wonderful reader of my dissertation, as well as a limitless reservoir of knowledge about everything to do with British history ...
... discussion which had a significant impact on this project. Sheldon Rothblatt in the History Department was a wonderful reader of my dissertation, as well as a limitless reservoir of knowledge about everything to do with British history ...
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... discuss, the pseudo- couple will stand as a kind of threat – more desirable, it would seem, than the total alienation marked by its final flickering extinction, yet itself a cul-de-sac, a harrowing image of the bleak interpersonal ...
... discuss, the pseudo- couple will stand as a kind of threat – more desirable, it would seem, than the total alienation marked by its final flickering extinction, yet itself a cul-de-sac, a harrowing image of the bleak interpersonal ...
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... discuss ruptures between individuals and institutions, personal friendship and corporate forms of comradeship, I am pointing to patterns of disjunction that have as much to do, for in- stance, with imperial or military ideology as with ...
... discuss ruptures between individuals and institutions, personal friendship and corporate forms of comradeship, I am pointing to patterns of disjunction that have as much to do, for in- stance, with imperial or military ideology as with ...
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... discussion, I will be using three interrelated terms that warrant clarification from the outset: “modernism,” “modernity,” and “literary authority.” Let me begin with literary authority, perhaps the most nebulous of the three. The idea ...
... discussion, I will be using three interrelated terms that warrant clarification from the outset: “modernism,” “modernity,” and “literary authority.” Let me begin with literary authority, perhaps the most nebulous of the three. The idea ...
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... discuss do not fully belong to the high canon, and yet the familiar landscape of modernism is an impor- tant point of reference for this study, primarily because the texts I discuss often construct their versions of lost friendship in ...
... discuss do not fully belong to the high canon, and yet the familiar landscape of modernism is an impor- tant point of reference for this study, primarily because the texts I discuss often construct their versions of lost friendship in ...
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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