Author: Crews, Frederick C.,
Title: E. M. Forster: the perils of humanism.
Description: Princeton, NJ, Princeton Univ Press, (1967). 2nd ptg. G PB. Owner notes & marks, ft cover browned on edges, owner name ft cover, back cover soiled. Crews details Forster's heredity,. heritage of Victorian liberalism, his Edwardian resistance to modernity, college years at Cambridge, the Bloomsbury circle of intellectual aristocrats into which he was drawn. Crews analyzes each of Forster's 5 novels to reveal his skeptical pessimistic humanism based on belief one can know only imperfectly & through continual reassessment of truth & reality. Eclecticism, individuality, agnosticism, romanticism, comic irony, symbolism & an inverted Calvinism convincing him neither he nor anyone else is bound to be saved.

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