E. M. Forster's Material Humanism

ISBN-13: 9781032294469 / Twarda / 2023 / 216 str.

Nour Dakkak

Opis

Through attending to the nonhuman, this book places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates in environmental humanities and queer ecology. It revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a materialist perspective

Spis treści

-          Acknowledgements

-          Introduction: E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism

o   Liberal Non/Humanism

o   Embodied Humanism

o   Disembodied Modernity

o   Queering Nature

-          Chapter One: Artificial Matters: Modernity, Apathy, Conformity

o   Nonconforming Bodies

o   Ideal Bodies

o   Apathetic Bodies

-          Chapter Two: Organic Matters: Chaos, Unpredictability, Intimacy

o   Chaperoned Encounters

o   Chaotic Encounters

o   Vulnerable Bodies

-          Chapter Three: Queer Matters: Dust

o   Dust as a Thing

o   Controlling Dust

o   The Other Dust

-          Conclusion

-          Bibliography

-          Index

O autorze

Nour Dakkak is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Arab Open University, Kuwait. She’s the co-editor of Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside (2021) with Jo Carruthers and Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930 (2020) with Jo Carruthers and Rebecca Spence. Her research examines human-world relations in early-twentieth century literature and culture.