Maurice (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: E. M. Forster
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: 1903-1913
- Setting: Cambridge, London, and Clive Durham’s country estate, Penge
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Freedom, Self-discovery, Tradition, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Education or educators, 1910’s, Individuality, London
- Locales: London, England, Cambridge, England
Characters Discussed
Maurice Hall, a healthy and handsome, though indifferent, student (at Sunnington and later at Cambridge) who becomes a successful London stockbroker. Conventional, respectable, and suburban, imaginatively slow and intellectually muddled, he begins in a state of vague sexual uneasiness and, by means of his largely platonic relationship with Clive Durham and a fully consummated relationship with Alec Scudder, develops a clear recognition and acceptance of his own homosexuality. Having fought his way to this understanding of his essential nature, he defies...
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See Also:
E. M. Forster (Cyclopedia of World Authors)E. M. Forster (Short Fiction)E. M. Forster (Dictionary of World Biography)E. M. Forster (Long Fiction)
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