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
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 perspectiveHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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Acknowledgements Introduction: E. M. Forster's Material Humanism Liberal Non/Humanism Embodied Humanism Disembodied Modernity Queering Nature Queer Matters Notes 1. Artificial Matters: Modernity, Apathy, Conformity Nonconforming Bodies Idealised Bodies Apathetic Bodies Notes 2. Organic Matters: Chaos, Unpredictability, Intimacy Chaperoned Encounters Chaotic Encounters Vulnerable Bodies Notes 3. Queer Matters: Dust Dust as a Thing Controlling Dust The "Other" Dust Notes Conclusion Bibliography Index
