The contemporary British novelist Zadie Smith cites Forster as a significant literary influence and even based her novel On Beauty (2005) on Howards End. Lawrence (“The Rocking-Horse Winner,” “Odour of Chrysanthemums”), and Samuel Butler. More than a century after publication, the day is not yet come when. Forster’s works were influenced by writers and thinkers like Thomas Hardy ( Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far From the Madding Crowd), D. Howards End, in whatever form you read or watch it, is an examination of how the rich get the gravy and the poor get the blame. Like other Modernists, however, he was interested in the dramatic cultural shifts of the early 20th century, but he focused on portraying the chaos of the modern world through his situations and imagery rather than stylistic innovation. Forster’s career as a novelist also spanned the wider period of Modernism, but he avoided the experimental technical styles of famous Modernists like Virginia Woolf ( Mrs. These writers reflected and commented on England’s social conditions at the height of the British Empire, when the material luxuries enjoyed by the rich contrasted strikingly with the squalid conditions experienced by four-fifths of the English population. Wodehouse (“Keeping it from Harold,” “Best Seller”). Contemporaries of Forster in the Edwardian Period, named for King Edward VII and spanning from Queen Victoria’s death in 1901 to the outbreak of WWI in 1914, included George Bernard Shaw ( Pygmalion), Rudyard Kipling ( The Jungle Book), and P.
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