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Maurice in Time.(Critical Essay)

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Date: 20000622
Author:Matz, Jesse

Dedicating Maurice "to a happier year," E. M. Forster sums up the many ways his novel looks to the future. Maurice waited 57 years to be published, because Forster felt it had to wait for a time in which its desires could express themselves without restraint, recrimination, or embarrassment. While waiting for its interpretive community to assemble, the novel was perpetually revised and refinished, finding in future advice and conversation the changes necessary to make it make sense. [1] And the novel looked to the future by predicting experiences Forster himself had not yet had. ...

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