E. M. Forster: An Annotated Secondary Bibliography

93 E. M. FORSTER: AN ANNOTATED SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY By Frederick P. W. McDowell (University of Iowa) [Note: The following listing brings up to date our record of writings on E. M. Forster. No further entries on Forster will appear In ELT until the Forster volume, compiled and edited by F. P. W. McDowell, has been published in the Annotated Secondary Bibliography Series now being issued by Northern Illinois University Press. The Förster volume has been tentatively scheduled for publication in the Fall of 1972. In the present list are Included a number of foreign language items not yet abstracted, although bibliographically verified. Also listed are many reviews and review-essays on books about Förster. These are listed under the names of the reviewer or, if anonymous, under their titles, and they are again listed under the entries for authors being reviewed, including authors we have listed and abstracted previously. We have not abstracted reviews of secondary works except in Instances when the reviewer seemed to comment significantly on Forster. - HEG"| Adams, J. Donald. "Speaking of Books," New York Times Book Review, 1*1 Oct 1962, p. 2. Nobody has written better on the art of fiction than EMF. [Cites especially EMF's view that artist can be provincial but that critic must not be; and his discussion of "Pattern and Rhythm."] ........ "Speaking of Books," New York Times Book Review, 27 Sept I953» P· 2. Discusses three categories of the characters EMF said he got into his fiction In his Paris Review interview [with P. N. Furbank and F. J. H. Haskell; see EFT. V: k (I962)," 27]. The people the novelist likes are present in sympathetic characters who are often transformations from people actually known in real life. EMF is right in thinking that Tolstoy attains a state of detachment concerning his characters that lesser novelists like Thomas Wolfe fail to reach. The second kind of person, "the person whom I think I am" is the author's voice unmistakably present in half our fiction. The third sort, the people who irritate the novelist, were well captured by Sinclair Lewis in his satiric portraits. Despite Tolstoy's attaining of it, dispassionateness is likely to remain an Impossible ideal for the novelist. Allott, Miriam. Novelists on the Novel. Lond: Houtledge & Kegan Paul; NY: Columbia U P, 1959· Passim. Numerous excerpts from EMF's writings on art and the novel, especially from Aspects. In discussion of the novelist's use of the marvellous, she uses EMF's concept of the prophetic writer's reaching back to elemental experience. Thus the symbols in novels by Hardy, Emily Bronte, Melville, Conrad, and EMF enlarge the experience presented in them. Makes much use of EMF's views in her discussion of "Structural Problems." The "civilized simplicity " of EMF's style should enable it to wear well. 9*4- ........ "Reviews," Modern Language Review, LVI (July I96I), ¿4-20-21. Review of H. J. Oliver, The Art of E. K1 Forster; see EFT, III: 1 (I960), 26 and V: T"(1962T, 52. Anand, MuIk RaJ. "English Novels of the Twentieth Century on India," Asian Review. XXXIX (July 19*4-3), 244-51; discussion of article, pp. 251-57. The Anglo-Indian writers have concentrated on the English in India and their London orientation ; and they reflect the attitudes toward empire prevailing in the period in which they wrote. Flora Annie Steel and EMF had much more sympathy with, and understanding of, the Indians than Kipling. EMF's earlier work Is personally rather than politically oriented, In the English tradition of Austen and Meredith supplemented by Flaubert. In Fassage he did not depart from his theme of personal relations and the failure of the British middle class to embody them. The Indians do not fare well; they are Infected with the neurosis which to EMF attacks a subject people. Passage reveals how Imperialism perverts the character of the Imperialists and fosters a militant nationalism in the rule. Passage Is the first English novel about India to suggest the scope and nuances of India. Edward Thompson and Dennis Klncald continued the liberal tradition of EMF and wrote of India realistically and sympathetically. A letter from EMF contends that...