Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Prologue
Part 2 Managing the Transgressive
Chapter 3 Between Two Gurus: Edward Carpenter and Walt Whitman
Chapter 4 Between Two Gurus: Edward Carpenter and Illakanam the Grammarian
Chapter 5 The Disciple Turned Guru: Edward Carpenter, Sexologist and Mystic
Part 6 Love in Absentia
Chapter 7 Forster, Religion and Sexuality
Chapter 8 Forster and the Krishna Cult
Part 9 The Atman Denied
Chapter 10 Isherwood and Swami Prabhavananda: The Guru-Disciple Relationship
Chapter 11 Isherwood's Vedantist Quest: Transcending the Ego
Chapter 12 Epilogue
Chapter 13 Appendix: Indian Diary 1999

About the Author

Antony Copley is Honorary Reader at the University of Kent.

Reviews

Highly recommended for those interested in sexuality, religion, and Hinduism.
*Religious Studies Review*

The book is fascinating, over-full but in some sense not full enough, frustrating, personal, engaging, sometimes illuminating.
*British, Irish and Postcolonial Literatures*

Antony Copley's book is...delightful and instructive....He takes us through his reading of the three seminal authors with aplomb and charm.
*The Round Table*

A valuable contribution to the critical understanding of Carpenter, Forster, and Isherwood. Copley's painstaking research into their lives, and the religions they were drawn to, offers new insights into their writings and relationships—as well as yielding unconventional perspectives on other authors' works.
*Times Literary Supplement*

Copley's book provides a wealth of fascinating detail about each of these figures, draws important conclusions between their experiences, and raises a series of provocative questions about the nature of the relationships between (homo)sexuality and (Hindu) spirituality.
*Journal of the History of Sexuality*