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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... war 4 War discourse : friendship and comradeship The major war poets : intimacy , authority , alienation Post - war articulations : lost friends and the lost generation " The violence of the nightmare ” : D. H. Lawrence and the aftermath of ...
... war 4 War discourse : friendship and comradeship The major war poets : intimacy , authority , alienation Post - war articulations : lost friends and the lost generation " The violence of the nightmare ” : D. H. Lawrence and the aftermath of ...
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... post-Victorian writers.6 The history of male intimacy is never incidental to the dynamics I will be describing; on the contrary, what makes the tension surround- ing friendship at the turn of the century so vivid is precisely the fact ...
... post-Victorian writers.6 The history of male intimacy is never incidental to the dynamics I will be describing; on the contrary, what makes the tension surround- ing friendship at the turn of the century so vivid is precisely the fact ...
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... war), which together set in motion a cycle of failure or disappoint- ment. The pressure of the physical body, the loss of ideological cover for imperialist myths, the actual experience of intimacy in war ... post- war contexts. Combat was not ...
... war), which together set in motion a cycle of failure or disappoint- ment. The pressure of the physical body, the loss of ideological cover for imperialist myths, the actual experience of intimacy in war ... post- war contexts. Combat was not ...
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... war's role in config- uring the literary and cultural life of the decades that followed, arguing, for instance, that the war's technologies, psychic effects, and metaphors intervened in diverse spheres of post-war society. Such issues ...
... war's role in config- uring the literary and cultural life of the decades that followed, arguing, for instance, that the war's technologies, psychic effects, and metaphors intervened in diverse spheres of post-war society. Such issues ...
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... war, as the clash between tech- nological innovation and physical vulnerability exploded beyond people's wildest pre-war ... post-war years, when the perception of brokenness became a trope for the physical and spiritual state of a war ...
... war, as the clash between tech- nological innovation and physical vulnerability exploded beyond people's wildest pre-war ... post-war years, when the perception of brokenness became a trope for the physical and spiritual state of a war ...
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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