Worlding Forster: The Passage from Pastoral

by Stuart Christie

Overview

Focusing on the literary works and career of British novelist E.M. Forster (1879-1970), this book argues that the writer adapted a much older literary form, the pastoral, to the purposes of writing about modern British experience. The publication points out that Forster's pastoral fiction challenged conventional parameters for the British novel, allowing for the emergence of his subsequent modernist classic, A Passage to India (including its critique of British imperialism). The monograph also provides a rationale for why Forster subsequently turned his artistic focus beyond Britain, embracing public radio under the direction of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415869454
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/25/2013
Series:	Studies in Major Literary Authors
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Stuart Christie is Professor in the Department of English Language & Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Doomed Pastoral; Chapter 2 “A Further Reservation in Favour of Strangeness”; Chapter 3 Akin to Railway Accidents; Chapter 4 Butterfly and Pythoness; Chapter 5 “Distinguishing t’Other from Which”; Chapter 6 “Queer Report”;