Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War

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Cambridge University Press, Aug 28, 2003 - Literary Criticism - 297 pages
Cole examines the rich literary and cultural history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century. She 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 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 voice within the literary canon.

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Forsters classical
16
Conradian alienation and imperial intimacy
97
Lord
114
friendship
138
D H Lawrence and
185
II
259
71
265
94
289
138
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Sarah Cole is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the Columbia University. Her articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies and ELH.