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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... 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.
... 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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... modern disaffection A Passage to India and the failure of institutions I Victorian dreams , modern realities : Forster's classical imagination 23 50 71 92 94 114 122 220 2 21 2 Conradian alienation and imperial intimacy Friendship's ...
... modern disaffection A Passage to India and the failure of institutions I Victorian dreams , modern realities : Forster's classical imagination 23 50 71 92 94 114 122 220 2 21 2 Conradian alienation and imperial intimacy Friendship's ...
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... Modern Fiction Studies, and the editors of ELH. My deepest gratitude goes to several people who have been beacons of inspiration, support, and love through every stage of the book's progress. I cannot adequately express how blessed I ...
... Modern Fiction Studies, and the editors of ELH. My deepest gratitude goes to several people who have been beacons of inspiration, support, and love through every stage of the book's progress. I cannot adequately express how blessed I ...
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... modern understanding; that it is essentially ironic; and that it originates largely in the application of mind and memory to the events of the Great War.”8 Critics like Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, whose seminal re- assessment of ...
... modern understanding; that it is essentially ironic; and that it originates largely in the application of mind and memory to the events of the Great War.”8 Critics like Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, whose seminal re- assessment of ...
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... modern man; shared mutilation a sign of protest; the broken post-war body a figure for literary self-constructions), and I shall operate on the line between what we might call constructionism and essentialism. If it has become a truism ...
... modern man; shared mutilation a sign of protest; the broken post-war body a figure for literary self-constructions), and I shall operate on the line between what we might call constructionism and essentialism. If it has become a truism ...
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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