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Heroes and homosexuals: education and empire in E. M. Forster.

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From: Twentieth Century Literature
Date: 20020922
Author:Bailey, Quentin

He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec's turn to bring out the hero in him.... They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them.

-- Forster, Maurice 208-09

In October 1912, the successful, 33-year-old novelist E. M. Forster sailed from England in search of material for an Indian novel. Conventional wisdom has it that he was suffering something of an artistic crisis at the time: the success of Howards End in 1910 had placed tremendous pressures on the young writer, and ...

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