“Áh yoù sílly àss, góds lìve in woóds!” Queer appropriations of Edwardian Classicism in Forster’s short fiction and Maurice by Claire Braunstein Barnes

“…Whilst the late nineteenth-century’s queer, classicised aestheticism may be understood as grounded in the urban elite – extrapolated into the twentieth by the Platonism of the Cambridge Apostles (see: Clive in Maurice) – Forster’s understanding of queer classicism is a more universalised quality and one evident anywhere in the natural world, should one wish to look. …”
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