Queer friendship : male intimacy in the English literary tradition / George E. Haggerty

Author: Haggerty, George E.
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date: ©2018
Physical Description: viii, 202 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents

Introduction: male friendship and Greek love -- Elegiac friendship. "Alas, poor Yorick!": elegiac friendship in Tristram Shandy -- "The last vich ian vohr": history as loss in Waverley -- "O sorrow, wilt thou live with me?: love and loss in Tennyson's in Memoriam -- "Jacob! Jacob!": the culture of loss in Jacob's room -- Erotic friendship. Smollett's world of masculine desire in Roderick Random -- Adultery and friendship in Fielding's Amelia -- The abyss of friendship in Godwin's Caleb Williams -- The horror of friendlessness in Frankenstein -- Platonic friendship. The meaning of friendship in Great expectations -- The failure of friendship in Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray -- Platonic love in The longest journey and Maurice -- Epilogue: queer friendship in a single man.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN

9781108418751 hardcover alkaline paper
1108418759 hardcover alkaline paper

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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