{"product_id":"twenty-first-century-readings-of-e-m-forsters-maurice-9781802077865","title":"Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book-length study of Forster’s posthumously-published novel. Nine essays focus exclusively on \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e became a defining text in Forster’s work and a canonical example of queer fiction. Yet the critical tendency to read \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e primarily as a ‘revelation’ of Forster’s homosexuality has obscured important biographical, political and aesthetic contexts for this novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection places \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews'\u003ci\u003eTwenty-First-Century Readings of E.M. Forster's Maurice \u003c\/i\u003eis a smart and wide-ranging collection of essays on a critically neglected novel whose time is very much now. Exploring the novel’s queer politics, historical contexts, and aesthetic afterlives, the contributors elevate it in the Forster canon and establish its vital relevance to contemporary LGBT life.'\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Bateman, University of Edinburgh\u003cbr\u003e'I would absolutely recommend the book. \u003ci\u003eTwenty-First-Century Readings \u003c\/i\u003enot only encapsulates and expands the present state of research concerning \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e but above all, it invites and creates space for further \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e related discussions... A real treat for the fans of \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e and its author.'\u003cbr\u003eAnna Kwiatkowska, \u003ci\u003ePolish Journal of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The scholarly ambition and intellectual range of the essays collected in Emma Sutton and Tsung-Han Tsai’s new volume suggest that scholarly work on E.M. Forster retains a pleasing energy and vibrancy in the author’s anniversary year... a deeply satisfying collection... It will undoubtedly send readers to the greenwood afresh, copies of \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e in hand.'\u003cbr\u003eFraser Riddell, \u003ci\u003eLanguage and Literary Studies of Warsaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Maurice Through Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmma Sutton and Tsung-Han Tsai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Forebears and Friends\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. ‘An unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort’: E. M. Forster, \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Legacy of Aestheticism\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph Bristow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Women In and Out: Forster, Social Purity, and Florence Barger\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGemma Moss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. The Master and the Pupil: E. M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, and the Forging of a Queer Aesthetic\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Charteris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Contemporary Contexts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. ‘Flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design’: Women and Narrative Exclusion in E. M. Forster’s \u003ci\u003eMaurice \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e: Beyond Body and Soul\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinn Fordham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. \u003ci\u003eMaurice\u003c\/i\u003e and Religion\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKrzysztof Fordoński\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Afterlives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. ‘A man embedded in society’: Homosexuality and the ‘Social Fabric’ in \u003ci\u003eMaurice \u003c\/i\u003eand Hollinghurst’s \u003ci\u003eThe Swimming-Pool Library\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Medalie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Sexuality, Allegory, and Interpretation: E. M. Forster’s \u003ci\u003eMaurice \u003c\/i\u003eand Damon Galgut’s \u003ci\u003eArctic Summer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHoward J. Booth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. \u003ci\u003eMaurice \u003c\/i\u003ewithout Ending, from Forster’s Palimpsest to Fan-Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaire Monk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49412881940823,"sku":"9781802077865","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781802077865.jpg?v=1730518421","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/twenty-first-century-readings-of-e-m-forsters-maurice-9781802077865","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}