A Spiritual Bloomsbury
Subtitle: Hinduism and Homosexuality in the Lives and Writings of Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: September 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780739114643
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hinduism; Religion; English; Influence; Religious aspects; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History / United States / 19th Century; Gay authors; Hinduism - General; England; Homosexuality; Religious life
Description: "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 and the problematic feminine, the tensions between sexuality, and the attraction of Hindu mysticism, this work seeks to reveal whether Hinduism offered the answers and fulfillment these writers ultimately sought.

Also included is a diary narrating Copley's quest to track down Carpenter's and Isherwood's Vendantism and Forster's Krishna cult on a journey to India."--BOOK JACKET.