Wendy Moffat, Ph.D., is the author of A Great
Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, $32.50 hb).
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, Forster's
homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wilde's 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 life--a history of gay
experience he believed would find its audience in a "happier” time. A Great Unrecorded History is a biography of the heart. Moffat's decade
of detective work--including first-time interviews with Forster's friends--has
resulted in the first book to integrate Forster's public and private lives.
Seeing his life through the lens of his sexuality offers us a radically new
view--revealing 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
history--from a completely new angle.
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