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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... story of the First World War. Cole shows that the terrain of masculine fellowship provides an important con- text for understanding key literary features of the modernist period. She foregrounds such crucial themes as the over ...
... story of the First World War. Cole shows that the terrain of masculine fellowship provides an important con- text for understanding key literary features of the modernist period. She foregrounds such crucial themes as the over ...
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... story of modernity. More than any other event, the cataclysm of war produced gigantic tears in the fabric of friendship and generated a language to account for them. The First World War represents the pivot of my study, as it has often ...
... story of modernity. More than any other event, the cataclysm of war produced gigantic tears in the fabric of friendship and generated a language to account for them. The First World War represents the pivot of my study, as it has often ...
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... story I tell here is very much a story about men. Why not dis- cuss women's friendships? First and foremost, female friendship has its own specific history, its own tropes and narrative devices, its own literary past.27 Any attempt to ...
... story I tell here is very much a story about men. Why not dis- cuss women's friendships? First and foremost, female friendship has its own specific history, its own tropes and narrative devices, its own literary past.27 Any attempt to ...
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... story of public-school ideology could be made with relative ease (Chapter 1), the final chapter's engagement with a rather neglected area of British cultural politics required more extensive delineation. Similarly, the type of ma ...
... story of public-school ideology could be made with relative ease (Chapter 1), the final chapter's engagement with a rather neglected area of British cultural politics required more extensive delineation. Similarly, the type of ma ...
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... story is one of disturbance and his language functions as a note of un- comfortable critique. Far from nurturing a decadent fantasy of ascendant friendship, Forster would eventually shatter that gilded image. Although Forster's elegiac ...
... story is one of disturbance and his language functions as a note of un- comfortable critique. Far from nurturing a decadent fantasy of ascendant friendship, Forster would eventually shatter that gilded image. Although Forster's elegiac ...
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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