John Beer Foreword (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Reprint. 1979. xx, 170pp. "E. M. Forster's India is the first ever study of the entire corpus of Forster's writings about India, published as well as unpublished, including the accounts in his personal letters and diaries. Based on the author's doctoral thesis for the University of Cambridge and personal interviews with the late E. M. Forster, his friend the late Malcolm Darling, and biographer P. N. Furbank, it is full of new insights into Forster's India, which is a pre-eminently vital part of Forster's life and work and an essential factor behind his eminence." Previous owner's bookplate to FEP. Both book and price-clipped dust jacket are in excellent condition. All contents are tight and clean. There are no other inscriptions. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Jacket has minor shelf rubbing, rear flap top corners bumped, book gently used. Text is clean. 'A multi-dimensional study of [E.M] Forster's twentieth-century classic A Passage to India - a novel which has been much discussed since its first appearance in 1924.' xii+383 pages. 5.7x8.7 inches. Maps. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, xiii + 209 pages. Ex-library, stamped "withdrawn / may be sold"; an external stamp on upper outer page edges, a couple of stamps and stickers on the front blank endpaper, a date and a security sticker inside the rear board. Underlining and marginal markings (brackets) in red pen on fifteen pages; a couple of small grubby marks, else interior is clean, untanned, in nice shape. Good secure binding. Residue of a partially removed label on lower spine. Issued without a dust jacket. -- "This new study by Mohammad Shaheen examines the way in which E. M. Forster presents a complex, cultural engagement of colonial Britain and colonised India in his works. Forster's experience in Egypt during the First World War had a profound impact on his life and writing, and Shaheen here offers a reassessment of that experience. He explores Forster's use of raw materials (including his journalistic writings, essays and letters) in his work and demonstrates how Forster's fiction can be read in the wider contexts of culture and imperialism, and particularly through the tens of Edward Said's views on 'resistance and opposition'." -- In Howards End, Forster remarks that the Imperialist 'hopes to inherit the earth' and with the strong temptation he has to acclaim it 'as a superyeoman, who carries his country's virtue overseas'. He then adds: 'But the Imperialist is not what he thinks or seems. He is a destroyer. He prepares the way for cosmopolitanism, and though his ambitions may be fulfilled the earth that he inherits will be grey'. This simple notion is masterly expressed in A Passage to India , which provides a rich diversity of historical contexts and implies political imperatives urging us to rethink the complex relationship between East and West not as simple confrontation but rather as deeply rooted in cultural differences far beyond the realm of imperialist sensibility. With the support of material by Forster published here for the first time, this volume explores the realm of Forster's politics and imperialism. --- Contents: 1. Person and Persona in the Portrait of Imperialism 2. 'Hassan in England': A Western Room With an Oriental View 3. Forster's Debate on 'Kipling Is Not Literature' 4. Forster Writes to the Empire and Salutes the Orient: A Passage Through Egypt 5. Beyond the Mediterranean Human Norm: The Politics of Liberal Humanism in Retreat 6. Burra's Introduction and Beyond: A Detour Round the Floods 7. Forster's Politics in Said's Culture and Imperialism: A Modern Debate; App. 1. The Government of Egypt; App. 2. Forster's Fictitious Letter to Mohammed El-Adle; App. 3. 'The Horror, the Horror'; App. 4. Unpublished Conversation with E.M. Forster; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Some spine lean. No signatures. A couple of horizontal pencil lines on fore page edges. A 3/8" tear at corner of dust wrapper. Several 1/8" tears at head of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper is price-clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover.; 460 pages + frontispiece. Red cloth boards.; 8vo.…