1st Edition

Worlding Forster The Passage from Pastoral

By Stuart Christie Copyright 2005
222 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more
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”;

Biography

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