TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haggerty,George E.
TI  - Queer friendship: male intimacy in the English literary tradition
SN  - 9781108418751
U1  - 823.009352664 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University press
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Gays in literature
KW  - Male friendship in literature
N2  - 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
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