E.M. Forster Contemporary Critical Essays [Paperback]

This anthology of essays on E.M. Forster's major novels draws together approaches from many aspects of new critical theory. As well as essays on The Longest Journey, A Room With a View, Maurice, Howards End and A Passage to India, the volume includes a specially-commissioned essay on the recent spate of Forster films. The casebook establishes a new case for Forster as a figure of more than merely conventional interest with a central place in twentieth-century literature.Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; J.Tambling.- Forster's Trespasses: Tourism and Cultural Politics; J.Buzard.- 'Aphrodite with a Janus Face': Language, Desire and History in The Longest Journey; R.H.Stoll.- Absent Father: Passive Son: The Dilemma of Rickie Elliot in The Longest Journey; C.M.Kaplan.- 'Islands of Money': Rentier Culture in Howards End; P.Delany.- Gesturing Towards an Open Space: Gender, Form and Language in Howards End; E.Langland.- Edward Carpenter and the Double Structure of Maurice; R.K.Martin.- Forster's Friends; R.Bharucha.- The Politics of Representation in A Passage to India; B.Parry.- Forster's Imperial Erotic; S.S.Goodyear.- Periphrasis, Power and Rape in A Passage to India; B.R.Silver.- A Passage to India: A Passage to the Patria?; P.Pether.- A Disconnected View: Forster, Modernity and Film; P.J.Hutchings.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.JEREMY TAMBLING is Reader in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong and author of five books.