| 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| dc.description.abstract (摘要) | Drawing upon previously unpublished correspondence, my essay documents how the transatlantic crossing of E. M. Forster`s literary corpus, from a Europe devastated by war to America, challenges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 | |
