1st Edition

E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

By Nour Dakkak Copyright 2024
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

Through attending to the nonhuman, E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates concerned with the intersection of neomaterialism, environmental humanities, and queer ecology. The book revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a materialist perspective by focusing on humans’ embodied activities in artificial and natural... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction: E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism

Liberal Non/Humanism
Embodied Humanism
Disembodied Modernity
Queering Nature
Queer Matters
Notes

1. Artificial Matters: Modernity, Apathy, Conformity

Nonconforming Bodies
Idealised Bodies
Apathetic Bodies
Notes

2. Organic Matters: Chaos, Unpredictability, Intimacy

Chaperoned Encounters
Chaotic Encounters
Vulnerable Bodies
Notes

3. Queer Matters: Dust

Dust as a Thing
Controlling Dust
The "Other" Dust
Notes

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Biography

Nour Dakkak is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Arab Open University, Kuwait. She’s the co-editor of Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside (2021) with Jo Carruthers and Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930 (2020) with Jo Carruthers and Rebecca Spence. Her research examines human–world relations in early-twentieth century literature and culture.