A Spiritual Bloomsbury: Hinduism and Homosexuality in the Lives and Writings of Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood
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. Antony Copley reveals how these writers reconciled their inner conflicts and were led in the direction of Hinduism either by friendship or the influence of gurus. Tackling the themes of the guru-disciple relationship, their quarrel with Christianity, relationships with their mothers...
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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.
Ch. 1Between two gurus : Edward Carpenter and Walt Whitman9Ch. 2Between two gurus : Edward Carpenter and Ilakkanam the grammarian36Ch. 3The disciple turned guru : Edward Carpenter, sexologist and mystic64Ch. 4Forster, religion, and sexuality107Ch. 5Forster and the Krishna cult141Ch. 6Ishrewood and Swami Prabhavananda : the guru-disciple relationship183Ch. 7Isherwoods's vedantist quest : transcending the ego227AppExtracts from a diary of the visit of India 1999291
