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

by Copley, Antony

ISBN13:
9780739114643
ISBN10:
0739114646
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2006-08-04
Publisher: 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

Preface

Prologue

(8)

Part I: Managing the Transgressive

Chapter One Between Two Gurus: Edward Carpenter and Walt Whitman

(27)

Chapter Two Between Two Gurus: Edward Carpenter and Ilakkanam the Grammarian

(28)

Chapter Three The Disciple Turned Guru: Edward Carpenter, Sexologist and Mystic

(43)

Part II: Love in Absentia

Chapter Four Forster, Religion, and Sexuality

107

(34)

Chapter Five Forster and the Krishna Cult

141

(42)

Part III: The Atman Denied

Chapter Six Isherwood and Swami Prahhavananda: The Guru-Disciple Relationship

183

(44)

Chapter Seven Isherwood's Vedantist Quest: Transcending the Ego

227

(46)

Epilogue

273

(18)

Appendix: Extracts Irons a Diary of the Visit to India 1999

291

(84)

Bibliography

375

(12)

Index

387

(10)

About the Author

397

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