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Revision Questions: Howards End Is A Critical Examination of Margaret Schlegel's
Revision Questions: Howards End Is A Critical Examination of Margaret Schlegel's
Revision Questions: Howards End Is A Critical Examination of Margaret Schlegel's
REVISION QUESTIONS
10. What evidence would you produce to support the view that
Howards End is a critical examination of Margaret Schlegel's
behaviour and attitudes rather than an endorsement of them.
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11. In what way do you think that the epigraph 'only connect' is
related to the action of the novel?
12. How far do you think Forster supports Margaret's opinion that
the essential basis of social life is economic?
13. It is clear enough why Helen gives money to Leonard Bast but
why does Forster make Margaret give away her money in the last
chapter of the novel?
15. The view of Howards End offered here has frequently drawn
attention to the religious or mystical dimension of the novel?
Discuss whether this dimension (a) exists, (b) has the significance
ascribed to it, (c) is made plausible by Forster.
17. Do you think that Forster's use of terms such as 'the invisible',
'the unseen', 'Infinity' and so on is carelessly obscure, or can his
vagueness be justified?
18. Do you think it is a valid criticism of the novel that Forster has
failed to give a sufficiently explicit account of the ways of life
represented by Howards End, on which he sets such a high
value?
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FURTHER READING
Text
The best text of the novel is published as volume 4 of The Abinger
Edition of E. M. Forster, edited by Oliver Stallybrass (London,
1973). A paperback edition of it is published by Penguin Books,
Harmondsworth, 1984.
Biographical
P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life, 2 vols (London, 1977).
Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank (eds), Selected Letters of E. M. Forster,
Vol. 1 (London, 1983).
Critical
John Beer, The Achievement of E. M. Forster (London, 1962).
Frederick Crews, E. M. Forster: the Perils of Humanism (Princeton,
1962).
K. W. Gransden, E. M. Forster (London, 1962).
F. R. Leavis, 'E. M. Forster', in The Common Pursuit (London,
1952).
James McConkey, The Novels of E. M. Forster (New York, 1957).
Lionel Trilling, E. M. Forster (London, 1944; revised edition 1967).
Peter Widdowson, E. M. Forster's 'Howards End' (London, 1977).
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