A Room with a View - E. M. Forster [105]
For Further Reading
Additional Works by E. M. Forster
NOVELS
Where Angels Fear to Tread. 1905.
The Longest Journey. 1907.
Howards End. 1910.
A Passage to India. 1924.
Maurice. 1971.
SHORT STORIES
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories. 1911.
The Eternal Moment and Other Stories. 1928.
Selected Stories. David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell, eds. New York: Penguin, 2001. Comprising a selection of the earlier two volumes.
ESSAYS AND CRITICISM
Aspects of the Novel. 1927. A treatise on the novel as a genre, from a series of lectures Forster gave at Cambridge in 1927.
Two Cheers for Democracy. 1951. A collection of reviews and essays on politics, aesthetics, art, and writing.
The Hill of Devi. 1953. A memoir of Forster’s tenure as a maharaja’s secretary in India.
“A View Without a Room.” 1958. New York: Albondocani Press, 1973. A “prophetic retrospect” celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of A Room with a View, in which the story is brought up to date.
Biographies
Beauman, Nicola. E. M. Forster: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Furbank, P. N. E. M. Forster: A Life. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
Criticism
Aspects of E. M. Forster: Essays and Recollections Written for His Ninetieth Birthday, January 1, 1969. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1969. Contributors include Elizabeth Bowen, Malcolm Bradbury, and Benjamin Britten.
Trilling, Lionel. E. M. Forster: A Study. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1943.
Wilde, Alan, ed. Critical Essays on E. M. Forster. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985.
On Travel and Tourism
Brendon, Piers. Thomas Cook: 150 Years of Popular Tourism. London: Secker and Warburg, 1991.
MacCannell, Dean. The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: Schocken Books, 1976.
Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. 1869. New York: Signet Classic, 1980.
Other Works Cited in the Introduction
Baedeker, Karl. Italy: Handbook for Travellers: Northern Italy. Twelfth edition. New York: Scribner, 1903.
Bowen, Elizabeth. “A Passage to E. M. Forster.” In Aspects of E. M. Forster. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1969.
Forster, E. M. Selected Letters. 2 vols. Edited by Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank. London: Collins, 1983, 1985.
Gardner, Philip, ed. E. M. Forster: The Critical Heritage. Boston: Rout-ledge, 1973.
Stape, J. H., ed. E. M. Forster: Interviews and Recollections. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
a
Queen Victoria, who died in 1901, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who died in 1892.
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Noble factions that vied for power in thirteenth-century Florence.
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Giotto di Bondone (1276?-1337), revered as the first Italian master painter.
d
Path along the right bank of the Arno River in Florence lined with elegant buildings, palaces, and plazas.
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It’s nothing (Italian).
f
From A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad (1896), which chronicles a youth spent in the countryside.
g
Do nothing [don’t worry], I’m old (Italian).
h
Listed in Baedeker as a seller of books and photographic reproductions of fine art.
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Members of the Misericordia, a fourteenth-century Florentine organization whose mission includes transportation of the sick and dying.
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Customs checkpoint at the city gates, where (Baedeker warns) foodstuffs might be taxed. †Idle (French).
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Go away! I’m busy! (Italian).
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Party of two men and two women (French). tGo soon, soon! (Italian).
m
Forerunner of the traveler’s check that could be exchanged for local currency.
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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) wrote this literary masterpiece in the wake of the Black Death, an epidemic that devastated Europe.
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Gently! (Italian).
p
All right (Italian).
q
Tip (French).
r
Lucy has in fact said in Italian: “Where good men? ... One—more—small.”
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There he is! (Italian).
t
From Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Adonais” (1821).
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Thank you so much! (Italian).
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An Italianate Englishman ... is the devil incarnate.
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Slightly misquoted from Tennyson’s “The Princess” (1847).
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Italian painter (1441?-1523) whose fresco nudes influenced Michelangelo.
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Rhine maidens in the opera whose title translates as Twilight of the Gods, the fourth section of the epic Ring cycle by Richard Wagner ( 1813-1883).