Queer friendship : male intimacy in the English literary tradition /
Haggerty, George E.,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
English fiction
Gays in literature.
Male friendship in literature.
English fiction.
Gays in literature.
Male friendship in literature.