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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... social power wielded by the institutions that housed and structured male bonds; as a matter of closeted and thwarted homoerotics; and as part of the story of the First World War. Cole shows that the terrain of masculine fellowship ...
... social power wielded by the institutions that housed and structured male bonds; as a matter of closeted and thwarted homoerotics; and as part of the story of the First World War. Cole shows that the terrain of masculine fellowship ...
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... 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 friendship often occupies a complex position in literary ...
... 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 friendship often occupies a complex position in literary ...
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... social relationship, friendship has its own conventions and institutional affinities (schools, universities, social clubs, as well as more rigidly arranged organizations from the Boy Scouts to the military platoon), and it is shot ...
... social relationship, friendship has its own conventions and institutional affinities (schools, universities, social clubs, as well as more rigidly arranged organizations from the Boy Scouts to the military platoon), and it is shot ...
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... social reformers as Thomas Hill Green at the end of the century present influential examples of a cultural politics organized around idealized male fraternities. Nineteenth-century imperial discourse, too, relied heavily on tropes of ...
... social reformers as Thomas Hill Green at the end of the century present influential examples of a cultural politics organized around idealized male fraternities. Nineteenth-century imperial discourse, too, relied heavily on tropes of ...
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... social activities, and the harsh new reality of homophobic punishment in the real world, emblematized in the play by London and by the shadowy figure of Oscar Wilde.16 What Stoppard suggests is that the flowering of a Platonic ideal of ...
... social activities, and the harsh new reality of homophobic punishment in the real world, emblematized in the play by London and by the shadowy figure of Oscar Wilde.16 What Stoppard suggests is that the flowering of a Platonic ideal of ...
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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