Self-discovery and alterity in A room with a view and Maurice, by E. M. Forster
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Alterity. E. M. Forster. English Literature. Gender.Abstract
A room with a view (1908/2006) and Maurice (1913/2006), by E. M. Forster, are novels that thematize processes of learning and coming to consciousness about the troubles concerning gender and sex codifications in Edwardian England. The aim of this work is to analyze these novels stressing the process of self-knowledge in A room with a view and the process of alterity as a sexual emancipatory means in Maurice, by considering some discussions presented in Mulvey (1989), Boes (2006), Kirsch (2015), and Butler (2015). The acknowledgment of the limits and the intertwining of gender and class are crucial for the characters action and their coming to terms with their own routes.
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