Acknowledgements
Explanatory Note
Introduction Forster's Personal Voice and His Legacy
Critical and Historical Overview
Modernist Bildungsroman
The Historical Denotation of the Symbolic Moment
From Modernism through Postmodernism to Metamodernism
Chapter 1 Development and Decline of Personality
Politics of Personality: Forster's Early Short Stories and the Independent Review
Depersonalisation and Procreation in “The Machine Stops” and “Little Imber”
Chapter 2 Narratives of Hetero- and Homosexual Love
Where Angels Fear to Tread as an Anti-Bildungsroman
Youth, Empire and Homosexuality in The Longest Journey
Untrammelled Personality in A Room with a View
(In)fertility and Nation in Maurice
Chapter 3 Myth-Making and the Masses in Howards End
Who's “We”?
Modernism and the Masses
The Failure of the Bildung and the Myth-Making in Modern England
Chapter 4 Forster's Colonial Bildungsroman
Race and Imperial Sexuality
The Birth of the Echo
The Demise of the Forsterian Bildungsroman
Chapter 5 Forster in Play and Film
A Passage to India: A Play in Three Acts
A Passage to India as a Heritage Film
Chapter 6 Forster and Metamodernism
On Beauty as Hyperreal Howards End
Forster and His Legacy
Alec and Maurice
Conclusion
Work Cited
Index
