E. M. Forsters Material Humanism - Queer Matters

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Nour Dakkak
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032294476
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3229447-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Anthropology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, E.M Forseter;Humanism;Queer;non-human;neo-materialism