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Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's 'Maurice' (Hardcover)
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Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's 'Maurice' (Hardcover)
Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 83
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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.
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