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Only Connect: E. M. Forster's Legacies in British Fiction

Only Connect: E. M. Forster's Legacies in British Fiction

Penas-Ibáñez, Beatriz
Álvarez-Faedo, María José
Cavalié, Elsa

Paperback

Series: Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Co, Book 18

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3034325991
ISBN13: 9783034325998
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Published: Apr 6 2017
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Since Forster's death in 1970, many British novelists and film directors have acknowledged and even claimed the influence of the novelist of the English soul (in Woolf's terms) and of a renewed faith in both human relationships and a quintessentially British liberal-humanism. After the ethical turn at the end of the twentieth century, British literature today seems to go back even more drastically to the figure of the individual human being, and to turn the narrative space into some laboratory of a new form of empowerment of the other's political autonomy. It is in this context that the references to Forster are more and more frequent, both in British fiction and in academia. This book does not only aim at spotting and theorising this return to Forster today. Rather we endeavour to trace its genealogy and shed light on the successive modes of the legacy, from Forster's first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) onwards, to the novelisation of Forster himself by Damon Galgut. How can the principle of connection, of correspondences and echoes, which informed Forster's private life and approach to writing so much, equally characterise the aesthetic and political influence of his oeuvre?

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