Queer ForsterRobert K. Martin, George Piggford This groundbreaking volume presents a radical revision of gay criticism and focuses on E. M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies. Many previous critics of Forster downplayed his homosexuality or read Forster naively in terms of gay liberation. This collection situates Forster within the Bloomsbury Group and examines his relations to major figures such as Henry James, Edward Carpenter, and Virginia Woolf. Particular attention is paid to Forster's several accounts of India and their troubled relation to the British colonial enterprise. Analyzing a wide range of Forster's work, the authors examine material from Forster's undergraduate writings to stories written more than a half-century later. A landmark book for the study of gender in literature, Queer Forster brings the terms "queer" and "gay" into conversation, opening up a dialogue on wider dimensions of theory and allowing a major revaluation of modernist inventions of sexual identity. |
Contents
Introduction Queer Forster? | 1 |
Queer Superstitions Forster Carpenter and the Illusion of Sexual Identity | 29 |
Thinking about Homosex in Forster and James | 59 |
The Mouse That Roared Creating a Queer Forster | 75 |
Camp Sites Forster and the Biographies of Queer Bloomsbury | 89 |
Fratrum Societati Forsters Apostolic Dedications | 113 |
This is the End of Parsival The Orphic and the Operatic in The Longest Journey | 137 |
Breaking the Engagement with Philosophy Reenvisioning HeteroHomo Relations in Maurice | 151 |
Contrary to the Prevailing Current? Homo eroticism and the Voice of Maternal Law in The Other Boat | 193 |
To Express the Subject of Friendship Masculine Desire and Colonialism in A Passage to India | 221 |
Colonial Queer Something | 237 |
It Must Have Been the Umbrella Forsters Queer Begetting | 255 |
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Contributors | 291 |
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Betrayal and Its Consolations in Maurice Arthur Snatchfold and What Does It Matter? A Morality | 167 |
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