Cole S. Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 297 + viii p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-81923-7.Argument: the organization of intimacy
Definitions and choices: modernism, modernity, literary authority
Structure: four sites of masculine bonding
1 Victorian dreams, modern realities: Forster’s classical imagination
Hellenism and the beautiful body: Carpenter, Pater, Symonds
The fall of Hellenism: Forster’s modern disaffection
A Passage to India andthe failure of institutions
2 Conradian alienation and imperial intimacy
Friendship’s dramatic demise: Heart of Darkness and Under Western Eyes
From system to solipsism: Lord Jim
Homoerotic heroics, domestic discipline: Conrad and Ford’s Romance
3 «My killed friends are with me where I go»: friendship and comradeship at war
War discourse: friendship and comradeship
The major war poets: intimacy, authority, alienation
Post-war articulations: lost friends and the lost generation
4 «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