Bathos, architecture and knowing India: E. M. Forster's A Passage to India and nineteenth-century British ethnology and the romance quest

In many ways, A Passage to India articulated E. M. Forster's dissatisfaction with the genre of the novel as a whole. The aesthetic form and subject matter can also be read in similar terms as a set of challenges to novelistic conventions.

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Published in:Journal of Commonwealth literature 2005-03, Vol.40 (1), p.21-36
Main Author: Majeed, Javed
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British & Irish literature
English literature
Forster, E M (1879-1970)
Literary criticism
Novels
Romance languages
Writers
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Summary:In many ways, A Passage to India articulated E. M. Forster's dissatisfaction with the genre of the novel as a whole. The aesthetic form and subject matter can also be read in similar terms as a set of challenges to novelistic conventions.
ISSN:0021-9894
1741-6442