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'Rhoden examines love and eroticisam in British and Australian Great War narratives. Interestingly, Australian narratives, with their protagonists even more separated from their women, are also likely to eschew homosexual themes. Although male tenderness exists, it is represented as being of a much lesser degree, at least in its physical manifestation. Male-male friendship–mateships–represented by Australian authors may carry undertones of emotional and physical intensity, but this is usually expressed in curt, economical gestures. The "lovely boys" of British works give way to a bunch of good blokes. Readers need to look more closely for evidence of romance and special individual bonds.' (Publication abstract)
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Lovely Boys, Good Blokes, and Bonzer Bints : Love and Eroticism in British and Australian Great War Narratives
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Subjects:
- A Single Flame 1939 single work autobiography
- When Blackbirds Sing 1962 single work novel
- The Digger on the Lofty Pedestal: Australian Women's Fictions of the Great War 1993 single work criticism
- Big-Noting : The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing 1987 single work criticism
- The Desert Column : Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine 1932 single work autobiography diary correspondence
- Flesh in Armour : A Novel 1932 single work novel
- The Middle Parts of Fortune : Somme and Ancre, 1916 1929 single work novel
- Crucible : An Australian First World War Novel 1935 single work novel
- Boys of Blood and Bone 2003 single work novel
- Backs to the Wall 1937 single work autobiography
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