A Spiritual Bloomsbury Hinduism and Homosexuality in the Lives and Writings of Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood,9780739114650

A Spiritual Bloomsbury Hinduism and Homosexuality in the Lives and Writings of Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood

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ISBN13: 9780739114650
ISBN10: 0739114654
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-09-05
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary

A Spiritual Bloomsbury is an exploration of how three English writers--Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood--sought to come to terms with their homosexuality by engagement with Hinduism.

Author Biography

Antony Copley is Honorary Reader at the University of Kent

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Prologue 1(8)
Part I: Managing the Transgressive
Between Two Gurus: Edward Carpenter and Walt Whitman
9(27)
Between Two Gurus: Edward Carpenter and Ilakkanam the Grammarian
36(28)
The Disciple Turned Guru: Edward Carpenter, Sexologist and Mystic
64(43)
Part II: Love in Absentia
Forster, Religion, and Sexuality
107(34)
Forster and the Krishna Cult
141(42)
Part III: The Atman Denied
Isherwood and Swami Prabhavananda: The Guru-Disciple Relationship
183(44)
Isherwood's Vedantist Quest: Transcending the Ego
227(46)
Epilogue 273(18)
Appendix: Extracts from a Diary of the Visit to India 1999 291(84)
Bibliography 375(12)
Index 387(10)
About the Author 397

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