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Shades of Gay – Maurice “Dedicated to a happier year”
Classic queer literature is rarely explicitly gender non-conforming. Dropped surnames, grazing hands and altered dress codes can all allude to a character’s secret sexuality, but unless you can recognise the signs, 20th-century lgbtq+ literature could quite easily be traditional literature. This, however, is not the case for Maurice.
Written in 1913-14 but published in 1971, six months or so after the writer E. M. Forster’s death. Maurice is a classic novel about a guy named Maurice finding his homosexuality and navigating his newfound position in British class and society.
“The book’s perspective on class and society would have been very deeply frowned upon”
He has two lovers. The relationships are written with such clarity that it is noticeable why the novel couldn’t be published at the second of writing. In fact, publishing after the author’s death wasn’t a decision but a necessity. Homosexuality was still very much illegal in the Joined Kingdom in the 1910s. Additionally, the book’s perspective on class and customs would have been very deeply frowned upon.
Maurice – Movie Review
Movie Review of James Ivory’s Maurice
Maurice is a 1987 romantic drama adapted from E.M. Forester’s titular novel. The film follows the lives of two gay Cambridge students, Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant), as they fall in adore. As their relationship develops over time, feeling the pressure of compulsory heterosexuality from British world, Clive decides to end his physical relationship with Maurice so that he can marry a woman. The former lovers last close as Maurice frequents Clive’s family estate. It is here that Maurice is introduced to their gamekeeper, Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves), and the two men quickly become intimate. Following their encounter, Maurice mistakes a letter from Alec as a ploy to blackmail him based on his homosexuality. Eventually, Maurice realizes his misunderstanding and reunites with Alec. Before Maurice and Alec pledge their commitment to one another, Maurice takes it upon himself to tell Clive of his love for Alec. The film concludes with a flashback of Clive thinking about the pleasant memories he shared with Maurice. The actors are believable in their roles stemming from their onscreen
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In preparing for my essay about Forster and Maurice in TheNew Republic a few years ago, I dove profound into the novel’s history, but own since learned even more I’d prefer to share in this presentation. Please join me for a talk and a discussion about this novel and its legacy.
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In 1970, the writer E. M. Forster shocked his readers by releasing a novel after his death that was also his way of coming out to them. He had stopped publishing fiction after his novel A Passage To India, in 1924, and while he published his lectures on fiction writing–Aspects of the Novel–he never seemed to possess another idea for a novel again. Lionel Trilling, who wrote an entire volume of criticism about his novels, even speculated about if and when he
I did, however, have an epiphany that held out hope. Like Forster’s hero, Maurice Hall, I wondered what it would be like simply not to exist. In a dim moment, Maurice reflects on Sophocles’ pronouncement in Oedipus at Colonus: “Not to be born is best.” I understood that feeling. One night, as I stood on the shore and thought about what it would be love not to exist, I heard in my leader the very same words that would spawn a social movement for same-sex attracted youth three decades later: “It gets better.” Where they came from I do not know to this day, but I held on because of that slenderest of promises.
Until that time, I hadn’t encountered much literature dealing with homosexuality in any form apart from the platonic, which did not interest me, a sexually overwrought teenager who had already begun to exposure anonymous physical encounters. We all knew about Tennessee Williams, of course, but the issue seemed obscured in plays like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, especially the movie version, which did everything to avoid naming the play’s central theme. Similarly, with Jack Kerouac and his “friend” Neil Cassady: I detected something relevant there but couldn’t detect it made explicit in an