Queer Friendship: Male Intimacy in the English Literary Tradition

Synopsis

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. George E. Haggerty. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.