A Spiritual Bloomsbury: Hinduism and Homosexuality in the by Antony Copley

By Antony Copley

a non secular Bloomsbury is an exploration of the way 3 English writers—Edward chippie, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood—sought to come back to phrases with their homosexuality by means of engagement with Hinduism. Copley finds how those writers got here to phrases with their internal conflicts and have been led towards Hinduism through friendship or the impression of experts. Tackling the subjects of the guru-disciple courting, their quarrel with Christianity, relationships with their moms and the not easy female, the tensions among sexuality and society, and the allure of Hindu mysticism; this interesting paintings seeks to bare even if Hinduism provided the solutions and achievement those writers eventually sought. additionally integrated is a diary narrating Copley's quest to trace down Carpenter's and Isherwood's Vendantism and Forster's Krishna cult on a trip to India.

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