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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... Cole is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies and ELH. MODERNISM , MALE FRIENDSHIP , AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR Half-title.
... Cole is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies and ELH. MODERNISM , MALE FRIENDSHIP , AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR Half-title.
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... masculine bonding page vi I I II 15 Hellenism and the beautiful body : Carpenter , Pater ... Friendship's dramatic demise : Heart of Darkness and Under Western Eyes From ... male bonds in D. H. Lawrence 138 140 155 173 185 187 226 252 292 ...
... masculine bonding page vi I I II 15 Hellenism and the beautiful body : Carpenter , Pater ... Friendship's dramatic demise : Heart of Darkness and Under Western Eyes From ... male bonds in D. H. Lawrence 138 140 155 173 185 187 226 252 292 ...
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... men populate a beleaguered world. Male friendship in Waiting for Godot (1954) is what survives the trauma of modernity – war, violence, history itself – and in turns becomes emblematic of such a condition. The two old and ragged friends ...
... men populate a beleaguered world. Male friendship in Waiting for Godot (1954) is what survives the trauma of modernity – war, violence, history itself – and in turns becomes emblematic of such a condition. The two old and ragged friends ...
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... male friendship that governed many literary and social conventions in the late nineteenth century, to an image of modernity as reflecting the wreckage of that very ideal. My underlying contention, in essence, is this: that male ...
... male friendship that governed many literary and social conventions in the late nineteenth century, to an image of modernity as reflecting the wreckage of that very ideal. My underlying contention, in essence, is this: that male ...
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... friendship , from a very different tradition , should help to introduce this study . Writing in 1921 , the Arctic ... male friendships : " The mutual conquest of difficulties is the cement of friendship , as it is the only lasting cement ...
... friendship , from a very different tradition , should help to introduce this study . Writing in 1921 , the Arctic ... male friendships : " The mutual conquest of difficulties is the cement of friendship , as it is the only lasting cement ...
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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