Howards End : complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives / E.M. Forster ; edited by Alistair M. Duckworth
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts -- The Complete Text -- A Critical History of Howards End -- Psychoanalytic Criticism and Howards End. Picturing the Self as Other: Howards End as Psychobiography / J. H. Stape -- Cultural Criticism and Howards End. Howards End: Fiction as History / Peter Widdowson -- Feminist and Gender Criticism and Howards End. Gesturing toward an Open Space: Gender, Form, and Language in Howards End / Elizabeth Langland -- Marxist Criticism and Howards End. Howards End: Gasoline and Goddesses / Judith Weissman -- Deconstruction and Howards End. Just Reading Howards End / J. Hillis Miller
Summary
This edition of Forster's classic novel reprints the authoritative text of the 1973 Abinger Edition together with five critical essays - especially prepared for this volume - that read Howards End from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach