Sep 6, 2008

Maurice | Maurice

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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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Maurice | Maurice

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Characters Discussed

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