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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... homosexuality or sentimentalize adolescence, and that in the decades surrounding the First World War, the pressures on friendship increased, coming to the fore in a variety of historical contexts and for a variety of reasons. In the ...
... homosexuality or sentimentalize adolescence, and that in the decades surrounding the First World War, the pressures on friendship increased, coming to the fore in a variety of historical contexts and for a variety of reasons. In the ...
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... homosexuality, which in the late nineteenth century was increasingly threatened. While the status of unorthodox sexuality will sur- face repeatedly in this study, it by no means dominates my understanding of how and why friendship fails ...
... homosexuality, which in the late nineteenth century was increasingly threatened. While the status of unorthodox sexuality will sur- face repeatedly in this study, it by no means dominates my understanding of how and why friendship fails ...
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... homosexual identity. Without entering into the ongoing debate about whether or not homosexuality was “invented” in the last decades of the century, a product of sexological theory and its institutional embodiments, I do want to mention ...
... homosexual identity. Without entering into the ongoing debate about whether or not homosexuality was “invented” in the last decades of the century, a product of sexological theory and its institutional embodiments, I do want to mention ...
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... homosexual divide, then, there are other tensions and incompatibilities that provoke a breakdown in the functioning of friendship, and these will matter equally with sexuality in configuring the constraints and limitations on male ...
... homosexual divide, then, there are other tensions and incompatibilities that provoke a breakdown in the functioning of friendship, and these will matter equally with sexuality in configuring the constraints and limitations on male ...
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... homosexual liberation, he is rarely credited with creating a crux within either of these major literary and cultural movements.6 This chapter begins to redress Forster's status as a transitional 22 Modernism, Male Friendship, and the ...
... homosexual liberation, he is rarely credited with creating a crux within either of these major literary and cultural movements.6 This chapter begins to redress Forster's status as a transitional 22 Modernism, Male Friendship, and 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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