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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Friendship and the Novel: Plot, Feeling, Form
Part One. Patterns
1 Between Women and Men: George Eliot's Friendships
2 Faux Amis in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
3 Friendship, Liberalism, and the Novel: A Passage to India
Part Two. American Examples
4 Henry James's Ficelles as Friends
5 Willa Cather and the Posterity of Friendship
Part Three. Modern Instances
6 The Friendship of Joseph Conrad and André Gide: From Admiration to Disillusion and Back
7 The Elusive Figure of Friendship in Virginia Woolf's Novels
8 Charles Ryder's Sentimental Education: The Lessons of Friendship in Brideshead Revisited
9 Muriel Spark's Ensembles
Part Four. Contemporary Friendships
10 Critical Distance, Reparative Proximity: Changing Representations of Queer Friendship
11 The European Generation X Novel
Afterword. Friendship: A Coda
Contributors
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Friendship and the Novel: Plot, Feeling, Form
Part One. Patterns
1 Between Women and Men: George Eliot's Friendships
2 Faux Amis in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
3 Friendship, Liberalism, and the Novel: A Passage to India
Part Two. American Examples
4 Henry James's Ficelles as Friends
5 Willa Cather and the Posterity of Friendship
Part Three. Modern Instances
6 The Friendship of Joseph Conrad and André Gide: From Admiration to Disillusion and Back
7 The Elusive Figure of Friendship in Virginia Woolf's Novels
8 Charles Ryder's Sentimental Education: The Lessons of Friendship in Brideshead Revisited
9 Muriel Spark's Ensembles
Part Four. Contemporary Friendships
10 Critical Distance, Reparative Proximity: Changing Representations of Queer Friendship
11 The European Generation X Novel
Afterword. Friendship: A Coda
Contributors
Index