The Laws of Transmission: Homosexuality, Inheritance, and the Memory of Criminalisation in E. M. Forster’s The Life to Come and Other Stories

• Published in: Études britanniques contemporaines
• Main Author: Petit, Maxime
• Other Authors: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J), Université de Toulouse (UT), Université Toulouse Capitole (UT Capitole), Centre for anglophone studies (CAS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2024
• Subjects: E. M. Forster; The Life to Come and Other Stories; Maurice; Arctic Summer and Other Fiction; transmission; homosexuality; criminalization; will; short story; posthumous publication; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; Arctic
• Online Access: https://univ-tlse2.hal.science/hal-04618360; https://doi.org/10.4000/11r4q

International audience This article deals with the way the themes of transmission and homosexuality intersect in E. M. Forster’s The Life to Come and Other Stories, a collection of short stories published posthumously in 1972. First, it deals with the way in which the stories, which were written pri...