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Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's 'Maurice'

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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This is the first book-length study of Forster’sposthumously-published novel. Nine essays focus exclusively on Maurice and its dynamic afterlives inliterature, film and new media during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Begun in 1913 and revised over almost fifty years, Maurice became adefining text in Forster’s work and a canonical example of queer fiction. Yetthe critical tendency to read Maurice primarily as a ‘revelation’ ofForster’s homosexuality has obscured important biographical, political and aestheticcontexts for this novel. This collection places Maurice among early twentieth-centurydebates about politics, philosophy, religion, gender, Aestheticism and allegory.Essays explore how the novel interacts with literary predecessors andcontemporaries including John Bunyan, Oscar Wilde, Havelock Ellis and EdwardCarpenter, and how it was shaped by personal relationships such as Forster’sfriendship with Florence Barger. They close-read the textual variants ofForster’s manuscripts and examine the novel’s genesis and revisions. They considerthe volatility of its reception, analysing how it galvanizes subsequentgenerations of writers and artists including Christopher Isherwood, AlanHollinghurst, Damon Galgut, James Ivory and twenty-first-century onlinefanfiction writers. What emerges from the volume is the complexity of thenovel, as a text and as a cultural phenomenon.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-03
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiverpool English Texts and Studies
Antal sidor296
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781802077865

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Introduction: Maurice Through TimeEmma Sutton and Tsung-Han TsaiPart I. Forebears and Friends1. ‘An unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort’: E. M. Forster, Maurice, and the Legacy of AestheticismJoseph Bristow2. Women In and Out: Forster, Social Purity, and Florence BargerGemma Moss3. The Master and the Pupil: E. M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, and the Forging of a Queer AestheticCharlotte CharterisPart II. Contemporary Contexts4. ‘Flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design’: Women and Narrative Exclusion in E. M. Forster’s Maurice Anna Watson5. Maurice: Beyond Body and SoulFinn Fordham6. Maurice and ReligionKrzysztof FordońskiPart III. Afterlives7. ‘A man embedded in society’: Homosexuality and the ‘Social Fabric’ in Maurice and Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool LibraryDavid Medalie8. Sexuality, Allegory, and Interpretation: E. M. Forster’s Maurice and Damon Galgut’s Arctic SummerHoward J. Booth9. Maurice without Ending, from Forster’s Palimpsest to Fan-TextClaire Monk

Reviews'Twenty-First-CenturyReadings of E.M. Forster's Maurice isa smart and wide-ranging collection of essays on a critically neglected novelwhose time is very much now. Exploring the novel’s queer politics, historicalcontexts, and aesthetic afterlives, the contributors elevate it in the Forstercanon and establish its vital relevance to contemporary LGBT life.'Benjamin Bateman, University of Edinburgh