Modernism, male friendship, and the First World War
Cole examines the rich history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century. She foregrounds such crucial themes as broken friendships, blood brotherhood, and the bereavement of the war poet. Cole argues that these dramas of compelling and often tortured male friendship have generated a particular voice within the literary canon.
Print Book, English, 2007
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Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2007
9780521036146, 0521036143
1073235222
Acknowledgements; Introduction: 1. Argument: the organization of intimacy; 2. Definitions and choices: modernism, modernity, literary authority; 3. Structure: four sites of masculine bonding; Part I. Victorian Dreams, Modern Realities: Forster's Classical Imagination: 4. Hellenism and the beautiful body: Carpenter, Pater, Symonds; 5. The fall of Hellenism: Forster's modern disaffection; 6. A Passage to India and the failure of institutions; Part II. Conradian Alienation and Imperial Intimacy: 7. Friendship's dramatic demise: Heart of Darkness and Under Western Eyes; 8. From system to solipsism: Lord Jim; 9. Homoerotic heroics, domestic discipline: Conrad and Ford's Romance; Part III. 'My Killed Friends are with me where I go': Friendship and Comradeship at War: 10. War discourse: friendship and comradeship; 11. The major war poets: intimacy, authority, alienation; 12. Post-war articulations: lost friends and the lost generation; Part IV. 'The Violence of the Nightmare': D. H. Lawrence and the Aftermath of War: 13. Bodies of men: the landscape of post-war England, 14. Desire and devastation: male bonds in D. H. Lawrence; Notes; Index.