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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... love through every stage of the book's progress. I cannot adequately express how blessed I feel for Martin Vogelbaum's infinite generosity and for his unwavering faith in this project. Ramie Targoff is a friend and role model for whom ...
... love through every stage of the book's progress. I cannot adequately express how blessed I feel for Martin Vogelbaum's infinite generosity and for his unwavering faith in this project. Ramie Targoff is a friend and role model for whom ...
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... male intimacy makes in the first decades of the twentieth century. If Beckett often characterizes his male partners simultaneously by love and aggressivity, inter-dependence and impoverishment, earnestness and parody, these traits will ...
... male intimacy makes in the first decades of the twentieth century. If Beckett often characterizes his male partners simultaneously by love and aggressivity, inter-dependence and impoverishment, earnestness and parody, these traits will ...
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... male love at Oxford, with its rich literary associations, institutional protection, and connection to a host of all-male athletic, intellectual, and social activities, and the harsh new reality of homophobic punishment in the real world ...
... male love at Oxford, with its rich literary associations, institutional protection, and connection to a host of all-male athletic, intellectual, and social activities, and the harsh new reality of homophobic punishment in the real world ...
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... male love that seems virtually omnipresent in such genres as the domestic novel, the adventure quest, and the pastoral (to name just a few). My thinking about how male intimacy was conceived, structured, and challenged in the early ...
... male love that seems virtually omnipresent in such genres as the domestic novel, the adventure quest, and the pastoral (to name just a few). My thinking about how male intimacy was conceived, structured, and challenged in the early ...
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... male body were extreme and far-reaching. Each chapter begins with a discussion of the cultural and institutional climate ... male education during the period, alongside several erudite and rarefied discourses about male love embedded in ...
... male body were extreme and far-reaching. Each chapter begins with a discussion of the cultural and institutional climate ... male education during the period, alongside several erudite and rarefied discourses about male love embedded in ...
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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