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Queer Friendship
Male Intimacy in the English Literary Tradition
Author: Haggerty George E.
This book shows how love between men has a rich history in English literature, and explores why these same-sex friendships are memorable.
Language: EnglishApproximative price 107.80 €
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Publication date: 03-2018
208 p. · 15.8x23.5 cm · Hardback
208 p. · 15.8x23.5 cm · Hardback
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Friendship in the classical world was celebrated as among the highest human achievements: nothing was more likely to lead to the divine than looking for it in the eyes of a friend. In exploring the complexities of male-male relations beyond the simple labels of sexuality, Queer Friendship shows how love between men has a rich and varied history in English literature. The friend could offer a reflection of one's own worth and a celebration of a kind of mutuality that was not connected to family or home. These same-sex friendships are memorable because they give shape to the novels of which they are a part, and question the assumption that the love between friends is different from the love between lovers. Queer Friendship explores English literary friendship in three ways: the elegiac, the erotic, and the platonic, by considering a myriad of works, including Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Tennyson's 'In Memoriam A. H. H.', and Dickens' Great Expectations.
Introduction: male friendship and Greek love; 1. Elegiac friendship; 2. Erotic friendship; 3. Platonic friendship; Epilogue: queer friendship in Isherwood's A Single Man.
George E. Haggerty is Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of English, University of California, Riverside.
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