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In the course of his ‘summing up’ of E. M. Forster’s Maurice, C. Rising maintains that the novel is a ‘too-autobiographical justification for personal resentment so intensely felt that it robs its characters of charity and its symbolic devices of depth’, and hence ‘simply falls short of art’.1 For him, ‘Maurice at best is personal therapy, at least a fumbling insight into a tortured soul. But is this enough? When one turns to our original question, “Has Forster done a good job?” the answer must be a resounding No followed by a quieter Yes’.2
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C. Rising, ‘E. M. Forster’s Maurice: A Summing Up’, Texas Quarterly, 17 (1974), p. 93.
Jeffrey Meyers, ‘Forster’s Secret Sharer’, Southern Review, 5 (1972), p. 59.
Evelyne Hanquart, ‘Maurice et E. M. Forster’, Etudes Anglaises, 28 (1975), p. 298.
Cynthia Ozick, ‘Forster as Homosexual’, Commentary, 52 (1971), p. 82.
Marvin Mudrick, ‘Fiction and Truth’, Hudson Review, 25 (1972), p. 143.
Arnold Kettle, ‘All for Love’, The New Republic, 9 October 1971, pp. 26–28.
Noel Annan, ‘Love Story’, The New York Review of Books, 21 October 1971, pp. 12–15.
Simon Raven, ‘The Strangeness of E. M. Forster’, Spectator, 225 (1971), p. 237.
P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1977 ), I, p. 14.
Harry Moore, ed., Letters of D. H. Lawrence to Bertrand Russell ( New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1948 ), pp. 29–31.
E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel, ed. Oliver Stallybrass, Abinger edn. ( London: Edward Arnold, 1974 ), p. 75.
Wilfred Stone, The Cave and the Mountain: A Study of E. M. Forster ( Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1966 ), p. 135.
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Grant, K. (1982). Maurice as Fantasy. In: Herz, J.S., Martin, R.K. (eds) E. M. Forster: Centenary Revaluations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05625-5_12
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