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Em Forster: A Passage to India Paperback - 2002

by E. M. Forster; Betty Jay (Editor)


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Except for the Marabar Caves-and they are twenty miles off-the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

From the rear cover

A Passage to India (1924), the last of E. M. Forster's novels to be published in his lifetime, became an immediate bestseller and also met with critical acclaim for its moral and political commentary on the crossings between individuals and cultures in the India of the British Empire. Forster's record of the terrible consequences of failed connection, of the unexpected upheavals that unsettle the calm of middle-class life, and of the challenges to the ideological foundations of Empire draw their strength from the novel's blend of intense realism and complex narrative technique. In this Readers' Guide, Betty Jay considers the establishment of Forster's reputation and the various attempts of critics to decipher the complex codes that are a feature of his novel. Successive chapters focus on debates around Forster's liberal-humanism, with essays from F. R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling and Malcolm Bradbury; on the indeterminacy and ambiguity of the text, with extracts from essays by Gillian Beer, Robert Barratt, Wendy Moffat and Jo-Ann Hoeppner Moran; and on the sexual politics of Forster's work, with writings from Elaine Showalter, Frances L. Restuccia and Eve Dawkins Poll. The Guide concludes with essays from Jeffrey Meyers and Jenny Sharpe, who read A Passage to India in terms of its engagement with British imperialism.

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  • Title Em Forster: A Passage to India
  • Author E. M. Forster; Betty Jay (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Red Globe Press, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Date December 2002
  • ISBN 9781840460278 / 184046027X
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.56 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99224567
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.912

About the author

BETTY JAY is Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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