A REVELATORY LOOK AT THE INTIMATE LIFE OF THE GREAT AUTHORAND HOW IT SHAPED HIS MOST BE LOVED WORKS
With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed novel Maurice in 1970, E. M. Forster came out as a homosexual though that revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation. As Wendy Moffat persuasively argues in A Great Unrecorded History, Forsters homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wildes imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a gay man. He preserved a vast archive of his private lifea history of gay experience he believed would find its audience in a happier time.
A Great Unrecorded History is a biography of the heart. Moffats decade of detective workincluding first-time interviews with Forsters friendshas resulted in the first book to integrate Forsters public and private lives. Seeing his life through the lens of his sexuality offers us a radically new viewrevealing his astuteness as a social critic, his political bravery, and his prophetic vision of gay intimacy. A Great Unrecorded History invites us to see Forster and modern gay historyfrom a completely new angle.
With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed novel Maurice in 1970, E. M. Forster came out as a homosexual though that revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation. As Wendy Moffat persuasively argues in A Great Unrecorded History, Forsters homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wildes imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a gay man. He preserved a vast archive of his private lifea history of gay experience he believed would find its audience in a happier time.
A Great Unrecorded History is a biography of the heart. Moffats decade of detective workincluding first-time interviews with Forsters friendshas resulted in the first book to integrate Forsters public and private lives. Seeing his life through the lens of his sexuality offers us a radically new viewrevealing his astuteness as a social critic, his political bravery, and his prophetic vision of gay intimacy. A Great Unrecorded History invites us to see Forster and modern gay historyfrom a completely new angle.
