A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374166781 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Booklist *Starred Review* It will come as no surprise to readers of literary fiction that E. He realized early on his attraction to his own gender, and we are given, with no hint of salaciousness, an honest account of his sex life over the years. M. At once powerful and sensitive, Moffat’s irresistibly compelling and responsible biography sees an unimpressive physical persona whose shyness reduced him to “disappearing into the woodwork.” And his long public silence—silent in that he published no more novels while he lived, after Passage to India—can be attributed to his having “grown tired of the masquerade of propriety.” Forster may have been regarded as mousy, but this treatment of his life is undeniably robust. Forster (1879–1970), author of such classic novels as Howards End (1910) and Passage to India (1924),
A Great Unrecorded History invites us to see Forster— and modern gay history—from a completely new angle.. Moffat’s decade of detective work—including first-time interviews with Forster’s friends—has resulted in the first book to integrate Forster’s public and private lives. Seeing his life through the lens of his sexuality offers us a radically new view—revealing his astuteness as a social critic, his political bravery, and his prophetic vision of gay intimacy. A REVELATORY LOOK AT THE INTIMATE LIFE OF THE GREAT AUTHOR—AND HOW IT SHAPED HIS MOST BE LOVED WORKS With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed novel Maurice in 1970, E. Between Wilde’s imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a gay man. A Great Unrecorded History is a biography of the heart. M. Forster came out as a homosexual— though that revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation. He preserved a vast archive of his private life—a history of gay experience he believed would find its audience in a happier time. As Wendy Moffat persuasively argues in A Great Unrecorded History, Forster’s homosexu
""I Should Want Everything Told, Everything."" according to Foster Corbin. The great novelist E. M. Forster on the subject of his posthumous legacy wanted everything told. Wendy Moffat, to her credit, certainly does just that. In A GREAT UNRECORDED HISTORY, a quotation from Forster, as are all the chapter headings, Moffat draws from his journals and a "locked diary" that he kept for sixty years as well as interviews with his friends. She also includes voluminous notes and an e. Illuminating and engrossing Emily Wylie It's not an easy thing to write with Forster-esque humanity, humor, and acute perception in any genre, but Wendy Moffat has done it here, in a biography of all things, writing a "new life" of E.M. Forster. I have loved Forster's work for a long time, and built an image of him in my headso it was a risk, a bit, to read a biography of him.however, i've come out of it with my love intact and deepened. Moff. A fine, absorbing biography Wendy Moffat's new biography opens in an amateur, theatrical way - probably the opening a literary agent demanded. But after she settles down to Forster's life and portrays the ways in which Forster crept out - passively and furtively - from his mother Lily's cruel thumb, the book is readable, insightful, well paced, and often highly absorbing. His Cambridge friends, from HOM to Leonard Woolf, reveal ho