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| Title: | E. M. Forster, Lionel Trilling, and the American Turn, 1942-1953 |
| Authors: | Christie, Stuart |
| Contributors: | 文山評論：文學與文化 |
| Keywords: | E. M. Forster;Lionel Trilling;liberal humanism;scale |
| Date: | 2018-06 |
| Issue Date: | 2019-03-29 15:09:35 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | Drawing upon previously unpublished correspondence, my essay documents how the transatlantic crossing of E. M. Forster`s literary corpus, from a Europe devastated by war to America, challenges one of Perry Anderson`s key claims about the postwar ＂contraflow＂ between the United States and England: that the sea change ＂modified Anglo more than American culture＂ (English Questions 204). Rather, the New York intellectual and literary critic, Lionel Trilling, succeeded in resituating Forster`s fiction cogently in terms of exigencies recognizable to a mass American readership in wartime and after, thereby securing Forster`s after-life in the American academy. Additionally, Trilling`s success imparted scale to the transatlantic turn, by making Forster`s newly transformed body of work amenable to ideological re-export, back again across the Atlantic, to England. As such, the pairing offered a historically significant corrective, during the decade following Pearl Harbor, to more reactionary critical formations within literary Modernism, at a time when both T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound had returned to nationalist bases when endorsing literature as a vehicle for culture. I conclude by affirming that the Forster-Trilling transatlantic combination served uniquely sociohistorical, interpretively occasional, and yet critically significant scalars beyond the nationalizing function of English literature and its criticism at that time. |
| Relation: | 文山評論：文學與文化, 11(2), pp.1-26 |
| Data Type: | article |
| DOI 連結: | https://doi.org/10.30395/WSR.201806_11(2).0002 |
| DOI: | 10.30395/WSR.201806_11(2).0002 |
| Appears in Collections: | [文山評論：文學與文化 THCI Core] 期刊論文
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