Since Forster's death in 1970, many British velists and film directors have ackwledged and even claimed the influence of the velist 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 automy. 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 t 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 vel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) onwards, to the velisation 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?
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Ag, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN-10
3034325991
ISBN-13
9783034325998
eBay Product ID (ePID)
233833512
Product Key Features
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Dimensions
Height
225mm
Width
150mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Pieterlen
Issn
2297-4628
Edited by
Laurent Mellet
Series Part/Volume Number
18
Series Title
Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Content Note
7
Author Biography
Elsa Cavalie is a Senior Lecturer at Avignon University (France). Her research focuses on Contemporary British fiction and Cultural Studies with particular emphasis on the notion of Englishness/Britishness. Laurent Mellet is Professor of British literature and film at the Universite Toulouse Jean Jaures (France). He specialises in Modernist and contemporary British fiction, and in film and adaptation theory.