![]() ![]() It’s Forster’s way of calling out the philistines like the Wilcox family. As one modern scholar put it, Forster employs a ‘rather donnish technique of incorporating divergent sources’ to display his own broad education through the experiences and dialogue of his characters. I want to focus on two of his texts particularly, A Room with a View and Howards End, and how these incorporate issues of class and philosophy that are reflected in the use of travel, music, and property. For producing a relatively small canon of literature, though, Forster is intimately tied to the Modernist movement. ![]() ![]() A sixth, Maurice, about a homosexual relationship, though written in 1913, was not published in 1971, a year after his death, because Forster did not want to publicise his sexual orientation. Edward Morgan Forster wrote only five published novels in his lifetime, all of them by the age of 45. ![]()
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