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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... figure for literary self-constructions), and I shall operate on the line between what we might call constructionism and essentialism. If it has become a truism that the body is fashioned, constructed, receptive to cultural shifts ...
... figure for literary self-constructions), and I shall operate on the line between what we might call constructionism and essentialism. If it has become a truism that the body is fashioned, constructed, receptive to cultural shifts ...
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... figure of A. E. Housman, the drama is organized around the pro- nounced – and tragic – contradiction in the late-Victorian period between the romanticization of male love at Oxford, with its rich literary associa- tions, institutional ...
... figure of A. E. Housman, the drama is organized around the pro- nounced – and tragic – contradiction in the late-Victorian period between the romanticization of male love at Oxford, with its rich literary associa- tions, institutional ...
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... figure as an agent in the twentieth-century literary imagination and to reiterate an expression of suffering as nearly inevitable for that figure. Still, I would be hesitant to embrace concepts such as abjection or masochism as ...
... figure as an agent in the twentieth-century literary imagination and to reiterate an expression of suffering as nearly inevitable for that figure. Still, I would be hesitant to embrace concepts such as abjection or masochism as ...
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... figure of the lost friend is offered as an emblem of modernity; friendship can stand either as a bulwark against ... figures is that they invoke with particular urgency the affective and narrative power of Victorian institutions and ...
... figure of the lost friend is offered as an emblem of modernity; friendship can stand either as a bulwark against ... figures is that they invoke with particular urgency the affective and narrative power of Victorian institutions and ...
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... figures addressed and reconstituted these problems. In terms of the discussions at the opening of each chapter, I have stressed the kind of historical and textual material that I deemed important for the inquiry at hand, and have also ...
... figures addressed and reconstituted these problems. In terms of the discussions at the opening of each chapter, I have stressed the kind of historical and textual material that I deemed important for the inquiry at hand, and have also ...
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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