Willa Cather and E. M. Forster: Transatlantic Transcendence

Alan Blackstock

doi:10.5771/9781611479805

Summary

Though both Willa Cather and E. M. Forster have been alternately praised as progressives and criticized as conservatives, the novels of both writers embody the tenets of liberal humanism, while at the same time reflecting the tensions associated with modernism (though both of these terms have come under intense critical scrutiny in recent years.) And while a few critics have offered brief comparisons of individual works or particular tendencies of Cather and Forster, none has provided the systematic comparative analysis of the relationship between liberal humanist/modernist tensions and the search for transcendence in their work that this book offers. The principal aims of the present study are to locate the imagined alternatives to the "lamentable present" embodied in the novels of both writers and to explore how literature and the arts might assist in transcending the deficiencies and disunities of life in the modern era.

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Edition: 1/2020
Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61147-979-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61147-980-5
Publisher: University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 141
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments and Permissions No access
1 The Atmosphere of Transatlantic Liberalism No access Pages 1 - 16
2 Finding a Voice No access Pages 17 - 38
3 Rooms with/out Views No access Pages 39 - 58
4 Mosque, Cathedral, Temple, Cave No access Pages 59 - 82
5 “The Unseen Things in the Hidden Places of the Earth” No access Pages 83 - 100
6 The Sexualized Landscapes of Cather and Forster No access Pages 101 - 124
Works Cited No access Pages 125 - 132
Index No access Pages 133 - 140
About the Author No access Pages 141 - 141