E M FORSTER'S HOWARD'S END Fiction as History

WIDDOWSON, Peter

ISBN 10: 0856210676 / ISBN 13: 9780856210679

Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd., London, 1977

About this Item

Considers the ambiguities and inconsistencies of Forster's vision, as exemplified in his novel, Howard's End, published in 1910, which paradoxically contributes to the novel's success as a work of art. Ex lib with jacket bound to book in plastic cover. No marking to text. 12.5 x 19cms with 124pp. We regret we are no longer able to ship to Denmark. All profits to Amnesty International.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: E M FORSTER'S HOWARD'S END Fiction as History
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus Ltd., London
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856210676
• ISBN 13: 9780856210679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Howards End, published in 1910, is deeply revealing of social and cultural processes which were intensified and transformed by the First World War. Forster's theme is the threat to liberal values from the hostile tendencies of modern life. Against the brutalising insensibility of urban and industrial England he opposed traditional rural England embodied in Howards End.Peter Widdowson consider the ambiguities and inconsistencies of Forster's vision which paradoxically contribute to the novel's success as a work of art. He shows how the form and structure of the novel - superficially a novel in the 19th century realist tradition - enact the insecurities and ambivalence of liberal ideology. He concludes that Howards End is not simply Forster's conscious account of the war between liberal-humanist culture and the new brutalism but also a part of that war.