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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... body : Carpenter , Pater , Symonds The fall of Hellenism : Forster's modern disaffection A Passage to India and the ... men : the landscape of post - war England Desire and devastation : male bonds in D. H. Lawrence 138 140 155 173 185 ...
... body : Carpenter , Pater , Symonds The fall of Hellenism : Forster's modern disaffection A Passage to India and the ... men : the landscape of post - war England Desire and devastation : male bonds in D. H. Lawrence 138 140 155 173 185 ...
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... male bonds, involves the physical body. The cultural history of the male body reached a crisis point in the experience of the war, as the clash between tech- nological innovation and physical vulnerability exploded beyond people's ...
... male bonds, involves the physical body. The cultural history of the male body reached a crisis point in the experience of the war, as the clash between tech- nological innovation and physical vulnerability exploded beyond people's ...
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... male intimacy and the sexual body have received extensive theoretical treatment. The first involves the move- ments in late nineteenth-century Britain of simultaneous awakening and foreclosure with respect to male desire and homosexual ...
... male intimacy and the sexual body have received extensive theoretical treatment. The first involves the move- ments in late nineteenth-century Britain of simultaneous awakening and foreclosure with respect to male desire and homosexual ...
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... male body. Many works come burdened with a pressing weight of internal contradiction, as the seemingly legitimizing language of friendship is exposed or rejected, and strategies of empowerment often seem far distant. To argue, as I ...
... male body. Many works come burdened with a pressing weight of internal contradiction, as the seemingly legitimizing language of friendship is exposed or rejected, and strategies of empowerment often seem far distant. To argue, as I ...
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... male body were extreme and far-reaching. Each chapter begins with a discussion of the cultural and institutional climate surrounding one broad topic (classicism; empire; war; post-war discourses of recovery) and culmi- nates in a ...
... male body were extreme and far-reaching. Each chapter begins with a discussion of the cultural and institutional climate surrounding one broad topic (classicism; empire; war; post-war discourses of recovery) and culmi- nates in a ...
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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