![]() ![]() ![]() Forster spreads his plot over a wide range of social classes and conditions, and demonstrates the fact that they're all inextricably connected, and that the strictly hierarchical social system of the now-dead Victorian period no longer applies. Howards End, which Forster published in 1910, is sometimes viewed as the last of the great nineteenth century condition of England novels. ![]() As the name indicates, this kind of novel attempts to draw a fleshed-out picture of the social world of England and its many, many problems, often with the goal of sketching out some kind of change for the future. This is not to say that Howards End doesn't take on a huge project in its own right: in it, Forster takes a crack at the "condition of England" novel, a genre that took off in the nineteenth century. Forster's novels (the most ambitious is generally admitted to be A Passage to India, in which Forster attempts to take on the question of the British Empire and its position in the world). Howards End is frequently viewed as the second-most-ambitious of E.M. ![]()
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