Shepherds in the parlor: Forster's apostles, pagans, and native sons

From: Novel | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

E.M. Forster's role in the transmission of literary culture as a modernist, indeed as Cambridge's only modernist novelist of repute, has been long tempered by critical judgments that have made cultural belonging the central issue of his metier. Contemporaries and critics alike have consistently a ssigned him to the periphery-whether of modernism and the arts, of Cambridge and Bloomsbury, or of national and masculine culture-and have explained his placement by reference to artistic diffidence, dated politics, maternal deterrence, or sexual frustration.' The veridical narrative of his ...

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