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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... writers of the modernist period simultaneously offered a challenge to a certain kind of conventional literary authority, represented, for instance, by the realist con- ventions of the nineteenth-century novel or the egotistical sublime ...
... writers of the modernist period simultaneously offered a challenge to a certain kind of conventional literary authority, represented, for instance, by the realist con- ventions of the nineteenth-century novel or the egotistical sublime ...
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... writer will understand as constituting modernity is , however , entirely subjective , and the idea of the modern is ... writers and social critics were quite taken with the idea of modernity as an apt expression of their historical ...
... writer will understand as constituting modernity is , however , entirely subjective , and the idea of the modern is ... writers and social critics were quite taken with the idea of modernity as an apt expression of their historical ...
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... writers whose interests and accounts of modernity were most intricately bound up with the idea of male friendship; this focus has led me in the direction of important historical events in the modernist period (such as the war), but ...
... writers whose interests and accounts of modernity were most intricately bound up with the idea of male friendship; this focus has led me in the direction of important historical events in the modernist period (such as the war), but ...
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... writers explored questions of female community in depth and with nuance, developing themes of friendship and antagonism, alliance and disconnection, possibility and limitation. We can trace in the liter- ature of these decades a number ...
... writers explored questions of female community in depth and with nuance, developing themes of friendship and antagonism, alliance and disconnection, possibility and limitation. We can trace in the liter- ature of these decades a number ...
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... writers comes from unpublished letters, memoirs, and fiction, or from lesser-known literary works about the war; and when I discuss the post-war period, I shall pay attention to a variety of artifacts, including political speeches ...
... writers comes from unpublished letters, memoirs, and fiction, or from lesser-known literary works about the war; and when I discuss the post-war period, I shall pay attention to a variety of artifacts, including political speeches ...
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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