Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Maurice

  • Psychiatry and homosexuality in E.M. Forster’s Maurice

    Jennifer ParkerBristol, England Introduction “The man in my book is, roughly speaking, good, but Society nearly destroys him,” E.M. Forster wrote in 1915 when describing the eponymous character in his novel Maurice.1,2 Anti-homosexual sentiment saturated British society in the twentieth century, overseen by intertwined medical and legal institutions that both constructed and constricted homosexuality on…