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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... individuals – teachers, colleagues, friends, and family – who have made this book pos- sible. Over the years, I have received a variety of grants and fellowships, and have benefited from the generosity of several foundations and ...
... individuals – teachers, colleagues, friends, and family – who have made this book pos- sible. Over the years, I have received a variety of grants and fellowships, and have benefited from the generosity of several foundations and ...
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... individuals and institutions . If the intimacy between in- dividuals comes fraught with vulnerability , what friendship appears to offer is a kind of infrastructure - practices , conventions , a language , a history that imbues the ...
... individuals and institutions . If the intimacy between in- dividuals comes fraught with vulnerability , what friendship appears to offer is a kind of infrastructure - practices , conventions , a language , a history that imbues the ...
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... individuals and institutions. In nearly every case, some conjunction of forces emerges to thwart the establishment ... individual out of the safe space of friendship, and each is presented in terms of the “authentic” story of modernity ...
... individuals and institutions. In nearly every case, some conjunction of forces emerges to thwart the establishment ... individual out of the safe space of friendship, and each is presented in terms of the “authentic” story of modernity ...
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... 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 physical desire. What I ...
... 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 physical desire. What I ...
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... individual isolation and bereavement , and the embittered voice that rises from the trenches is specifically rendered as the voice of the permanently scarred friend . Thus the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon delineates an ...
... individual isolation and bereavement , and the embittered voice that rises from the trenches is specifically rendered as the voice of the permanently scarred friend . Thus the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon delineates an ...
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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