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題名 E. M. Forster, Lionel Trilling, and the American Turn, 1942-1953
作者 Christie, Stuart
貢獻者 文山評論：文學與文化
關鍵詞 E. M. Forster; Lionel Trilling; liberal humanism; scale
日期 2018-06
上傳時間 29-Mar-2019 15:09:35 (UTC+8)
摘要 Drawing upon previously unpublished correspondence, my essay documents how the transatlantic crossing of E. M. Forster`s literary corpus, from a Europe devastated by war to America, challenges one of Perry Anderson`s key claims about the postwar ＂contraflow＂ between the United States and England: that the sea change ＂modified Anglo more than American culture＂ (English Questions 204). Rather, the New York intellectual and literary critic, Lionel Trilling, succeeded in resituating Forster`s fiction cogently in terms of exigencies recognizable to a mass American readership in wartime and after, thereby securing Forster`s after-life in the American academy. Additionally, Trilling`s success imparted scale to the transatlantic turn, by making Forster`s newly transformed body of work amenable to ideological re-export, back again across the Atlantic, to England. As such, the pairing offered a historically significant corrective, during the decade following Pearl Harbor, to more reactionary critical formations within literary Modernism, at a time when both T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound had returned to nationalist bases when endorsing literature as a vehicle for culture. I conclude by affirming that the Forster-Trilling transatlantic combination served uniquely sociohistorical, interpretively occasional, and yet critically significant scalars beyond the nationalizing function of English literature and its criticism at that time.
關聯 文山評論：文學與文化, 11(2), pp.1-26
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.30395/WSR.201806_11(2).0002
dc.contributor 文山評論：文學與文化
dc.creator (作者) Christie, Stuart
dc.date (日期) 2018-06
dc.date.accessioned 29-Mar-2019 15:09:35 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 29-Mar-2019 15:09:35 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 29-Mar-2019 15:09:35 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/122725-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) Drawing upon previously unpublished correspondence, my essay documents how the transatlantic crossing of E. M. Forster`s literary corpus, from a Europe devastated by war to America, challenges one of Perry Anderson`s key claims about the postwar ＂contraflow＂ between the United States and England: that the sea change ＂modified Anglo more than American culture＂ (English Questions 204). Rather, the New York intellectual and literary critic, Lionel Trilling, succeeded in resituating Forster`s fiction cogently in terms of exigencies recognizable to a mass American readership in wartime and after, thereby securing Forster`s after-life in the American academy. Additionally, Trilling`s success imparted scale to the transatlantic turn, by making Forster`s newly transformed body of work amenable to ideological re-export, back again across the Atlantic, to England. As such, the pairing offered a historically significant corrective, during the decade following Pearl Harbor, to more reactionary critical formations within literary Modernism, at a time when both T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound had returned to nationalist bases when endorsing literature as a vehicle for culture. I conclude by affirming that the Forster-Trilling transatlantic combination served uniquely sociohistorical, interpretively occasional, and yet critically significant scalars beyond the nationalizing function of English literature and its criticism at that time.
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dc.relation (關聯) 文山評論：文學與文化, 11(2), pp.1-26
dc.subject (關鍵詞) E. M. Forster; Lionel Trilling; liberal humanism; scale
dc.title (題名) E. M. Forster, Lionel Trilling, and the American Turn, 1942-1953
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.30395/WSR.201806_11(2).0002
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.30395/WSR.201806_11(2).0002