'… Tsai offers a deliberately decentred book that looks across more marginal works in Forster's oeuvre…[His] study offers so many insights by way of new contexts …' Will May, Music & Letters
Introduction; 1. The Rhythm of the Racial Other: Before Aspects of the Novel; 2. The Queering of Musical Instruments; 3. From Literary Heritage to National Character; 4. The Problem of the Wagnerian Hero; 5. Amateurism, Musicology, and Gender; Postlude.