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Maurice by E. M. Forster, a romantic novel centred on the title character’s burgeoning awareness of his homosexuality and the ways he explores it. Maurice initially embarks on a relationship with one of his fellow students at Cambridge, the highly intellectual Clive Durham. However, after Clive breaks his heart by abruptly ending their relationship, Maurice initially looks for a way of ‘curing’ his homosexuality, before eventually accepting himself and entering into a committed relationship with the lower-class Alec Scudder. E. M. Forster was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, and is generally considered one of the most important English novelists of the 20th century. At his behest,
Maurice was not published until after his death, as homosexuality remained illegal in the United Kingdom throughout most of his lifetime, and he feared the possible repercussions of publishing a book that portrayed same-sex relationships in such a positive light.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
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E. M. FORSTER
ENGLISH NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, ESSAYIST AND LIBRETTIST
Born in Marylebone (England) in 1879.Died in Coventry (England) in 1970.Notable works:A Room with a View (1908), novelHowards End (1910), novelA Passage to India (1924), novelForster was the only child of Alice Clara “Lily” (née Whichelo) and Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster, an architect, who died when Forster was two years old. In 1883, he and his mother moved to Rooks Nest in Hertfordshire, which later served as the model for Howards End in his novel of the same name. From 1897 to 1901 he attended King’s College Cambridge, where he was a member of the Apostles discussion society, which met in secret to debate philosophy. He was a conscientious objector to World War I and travelled to Egypt, Germany and India in 1914. Forster was homosexual, but this was only known by his close friends. He had a long-term relationship with a married policeman, Benjamin Buckingham, and when he died of a stroke aged 91, his ashes were mixed with Buckingham’s and scattered in the cemetery in Coventry. Forster published five novels during his lifetime; although he had written Maurice some 60 years beforehand, he asked that it only be published after his death due to the homosexual relationship at the centre of the novel. He never finished his seventh novel, Arctic Summer.
MAURICE
A HOMOSEXUAL BILDUNGSROMAN (COMING OF AGE STORY)
Genre: novelReference edition: Forster, E. M. (2005) Maurice. London: Penguin Classics.1stedition: 1971Themes: gender and sexuality, homosexuality, class, education, religion, societal expectations, love and relationships, public and private lifeDismissed as “the least satisfactory of all Forster’s novels” (King, 1978, cited in Symondson, 2016), Maurice tells the story of the titular character’s exploration of his homosexuality during his formative years. The novel starts by exploring Maurice Hall’s first encounters with sexuality at school, then follows him through his university days where he meets his first homosexual lover, Clive Durham. After university, Clive claims to have become heterosexual and marries a woman. Maurice is devastated, but soon starts a relationship with Clive’s gamekeeper. The novel ends happily, with the two agreeing to start a new life together.
