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Modernism, male friendship, and the First World War
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- Creator
- Sarah Cole
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007
- Physical Details
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- vii, 297 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521036146, 0521036143
- OCLC
- ocm86167321
- Originally published: 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-291) and index.
- Introduction -- Argument : the organization of intimacy -- Definitions and choices : modernism, modernity, literary authority -- Structure : four sites of masculine bonding -- Victorian dreams, modern realities : Forster's classical imagination -- Hellenism and the beautiful body : Carpenter, Pater, Symonds -- The fall of Hellensim : Forster's modern disaffection -- A Passage to India and the failure of institutions -- Conradian alienation and imperial intimacy -- Friendship's dramaric demise: Heart of darkness and Under Western eyes -- From system to solipsism: Lord Jim -- Homoerotic heroics, domestic discipline: Conrad and Ford's Romance -- 'My killed friends are with me where I go' : friendship and comradeship at war -- 'War discourse: friendhip and comradeship -- The major war poets: intimacy, authority, alienation -- Post-war articulations: lost friends and the lost generation -- 'The violence of the nightmare' : D.H. Lawrence and the aftermath of war -- Bodies of men: the landscape of post-war England -- Desire and devastation: male bonds in D. H. lawrence.
Subjects
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Male friendship in literature.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war.
- English literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism.
- Soldiers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
- Soldiers in literature.
- Men in literature.
- War in literature.