E. M. Forster: A Human Exploration: Centenary Essays

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: The Elusive Forster....Pages 1-10
A Quorum of Quotations....Pages 11-16
The Narrator as Hermes: a study of the early short fiction....Pages 17-27
Where was the Road from Colonus?....Pages 28-31
The Longest Journey: E. M. Forster’s Refutation of Idealism....Pages 32-54
The Inheritors; or A Single Ticket for Howards End....Pages 55-68
Forster on Profit and Loss....Pages 69-78
Forster’s Alexandria: the Transitional Journey....Pages 79-88
A Passage via Alexandria?....Pages 89-101
Forster and Dewas....Pages 102-108
Life’s Walking Shadows in A Passage to India....Pages 109-116
Promise and Withdrawal in A Passage to India....Pages 117-128
A Passage to India: Epitaph or Manifesto?....Pages 129-141
Language and Silence in A Passage to India....Pages 142-160
Forster and ‘Bloomsbury’ Prose....Pages 161-166
E. M. Forster’s Travelogue from the Hill of Devi to the Bayreuth Festival....Pages 167-182
Some Reminiscences....Pages 183-185
Forster on Lawrence....Pages 186-195
The Naturalisation of Eden....Pages 196-207
E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and the ‘Hymn Before Action’....Pages 208-215
Forster and Virginia Woolf: the Critical Friends....Pages 216-230
Two Anonymous Writers, E. M. Forster and Anton Chekhov....Pages 231-244
‘The Last Englishman’: Lawrence’s appreciation of Forster....Pages 245-268
Forster Scholarship and Criticism for the Desert Islander....Pages 269-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-314