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Book SynopsisA radical revision of gay criticism, focusing on E.M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies. This collection of essays situates Forster within the Bloomsbury Group, and examines his relations with major figures such as Henry James, Edward Carpenter and Virginia Woolf.
Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations 1: Introduction: Queer, Forster? Robert K. Martin, George Piggford. 2: "Queer Superstitions": Forster, Carpenter, and the Illusion of (Sexual) Identity Gregory W. Bredbeck 3: "Thinking about Homosex" in Forster and James Eric Haralson 4: The Mouse That Roared: Creating a Queer Forster Christopher Reed 5: Camp Sites: Forster and the Biographies of Queer Bloomsbury George Piggford 6: Fratrum Societati: Forster's Apostolic Dedications Joseph Bristow 7: "This is the End of Parsival": The Orphic and the Operatic in The Longest Journey Judith Scherer Herz 8: Breaking the Engagement with Philosophy Re-envisioning Hetero/Homo Relations in Maurice Debrah Raschke 9: Betrayal and Its Consolations in Maurice, "Arthur Snatchfold," and "What Does It Matter? A Morality" Christopher Lane 10: "Contrary to the Prevailing Current"? Homoeroticism and the Voice of Maternal Law in "The Other Boat" Tamera Dorland 11: To Express the Subject of Friendship: Masculine Desire and Colonialism in A Passage to India Charu Malik 12: Colonial Queer Something Yonatan Touval 13: "It Must Have Been the Umbrella": Forster's Queer Begetting Robert K. Martin Works Cited Contributors Index of Forster's Works General Index
