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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453804303321

Autore

Christie Stuart <1967, >

Titolo

Worlding Forster : the passage from pastoral / / Stuart Christie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

0-415-86945-5

0-203-95846-2

1-135-46996-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

Studies in major literary authors ; ; volume 37

Disciplina

823/.912

Soggetti

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Pastoral fiction, English - History and criticism

National characteristics, English, in literature

World politics in literature

Country life in literature

Liberalism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover;  Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations and Figures ; Abbreviations ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction; Chapter One Doomed Pastoral: Neohellenism, Liberal Apocalypse, and the ""Call of Class"" in Howards End and Maurice; Chapter Two  ""A Further Reservation in Favour of Strangeness"": Isherwood's Queer Pastoral in The Mortmere Stories and ""On Reugen Island""; Chapter Three  Akin to Railway Accidents: Textual Realism in Forster's Commonplace Book

Chapter FourButterfly and Pythoness: ModernistHistoriography in Woolf s Between theActs and Forster s ""Abinger Pageant""Chapter Five  ""Distinguishing t'Other From Which"": The Imperial Subject in Sir Andrew Fraser's Rajahs and Ryots and Forster's Howards End; Chapter Six  ""Queer Report"": Disappointed Critics and Prophecy in A Passage in India; Notes ; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.