Aspects of the Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0141441690
- ISBN-13
- 9780141441696
- Series
- Aspects of the Novel
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 204
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Limited
- Author
- E M Forster
Description
An analysis, in which, the author rejects the 'pseudoscholarship' of historical criticism - 'that great demon of chronology' - that considers writers in terms of the period in which they wrote and instead asks us to imagine the great novelists working together in a single room
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