Twenty-first-century readings of E.M. Forster's Maurice
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Twenty-first-century readings of E.M. Forster's Maurice
（Liverpool English texts and studies / general editor, Philip Edwards, 83）
Liverpool University Press, 2023
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"First published 2020"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p.252-267) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first book-length study of Forster's
posthumously-published novel. Nine essays focus exclusively on Maurice and its dynamic afterlives in
literature, film and new media during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Begun in 1913 and revised over almost fifty years, Maurice became a
defining text in Forster's work and a canonical example of queer fiction. Yet
the critical tendency to read Maurice primarily as a 'revelation' of
Forster's homosexuality has obscured important biographical, political and aesthetic
contexts for this novel.
This collection places Maurice among early twentieth-century
debates about politics, philosophy, religion, gender, Aestheticism and allegory.
Essays explore how the novel interacts with literary predecessors and
contemporaries including John Bunyan, Oscar Wilde, Havelock Ellis and Edward
Carpenter, and how it was shaped by personal relationships such as Forster's
friendship with Florence Barger. They close-read the textual variants of
Forster's manuscripts and examine the novel's genesis and revisions. They consider
the volatility of its reception, analysing how it galvanizes subsequent
generations of writers and artists including Christopher Isherwood, Alan
Hollinghurst, Damon Galgut, James Ivory and twenty-first-century online
fanfiction writers. What emerges from the volume is the complexity of the
novel, as a text and as a cultural phenomenon.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Maurice Through Time
Emma Sutton and Tsung-Han Tsai
Part I. Forebears and Friends
1. 'An unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort': E. M. Forster, Maurice, and the Legacy of Aestheticism
Joseph Bristow
2. Women In and Out: Forster, Social Purity, and Florence Barger
Gemma Moss
3. The Master and the Pupil: E. M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, and the Forging of a Queer Aesthetic
Charlotte Charteris
Part II. Contemporary Contexts
4. 'Flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design': Women and Narrative Exclusion in E. M. Forster's Maurice
Anna Watson
5. Maurice: Beyond Body and Soul
Finn Fordham
6. Maurice and Religion
Krzysztof Fordonski
Part III. Afterlives
7. 'A man embedded in society': Homosexuality and the 'Social Fabric' in Maurice and Hollinghurst's The Swimming-Pool Library
David Medalie
8. Sexuality, Allegory, and Interpretation: E. M. Forster's Maurice and Damon Galgut's Arctic Summer
Howard J. Booth
9. Maurice without Ending, from Forster's Palimpsest to Fan-Text
Claire Monk
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