A Spiritual Bloomsbury Hinduism and

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 is Honorary Reader at the University of Kent

Preface

ix

Prologue

1

(8)

Part I: Managing the Transgressive

Between Two Gurus: Edward Carpenter and Walt Whitman

9

(27)

Between Two Gurus: Edward Carpenter and Ilakkanam the Grammarian

36

(28)

The Disciple Turned Guru: Edward Carpenter, Sexologist and Mystic

64

(43)

Part II: Love in Absentia

Forster, Religion, and Sexuality

107

(34)

Forster and the Krishna Cult

141

(42)

Part III: The Atman Denied

Isherwood and Swami Prabhavananda: The Guru-Disciple Relationship

183

(44)

Isherwood's Vedantist Quest: Transcending the Ego

227

(46)

Epilogue

273

(18)

Appendix: Extracts from a Diary of the Visit to India 1999

291

(84)

Bibliography

375

(12)

Index

387

(10)

About the Author

397

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A Spiritual Bloomsbury Hinduism and Homosexuality in the Lives and Writings of Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood

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