Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Passage to India
This paper proposes a reflection on E.M. Forster’s literary construction of national otherness through a reading of two specific scenes, from his first and last published novels, that centre on the depiction of foreign crowds. From Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) to A Passage to India (1924), i...
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| description | This paper proposes a reflection on E.M. Forster’s literary
construction of national otherness through a reading of two specific scenes, from
his first and last published novels, that centre on the depiction of foreign crowds.
From Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) to A Passage to India (1924), it is possible
to detect a movement of growing awareness, within Forster’s consciousness, of the
presence of the other. If the encounter with the Italian other is still highly mediated
by an age-long literary tradition of fantasizing about the south of Europe that had
depicted countries like Italy as unique constellations of counter-values to the British
ethos, in A Passage to India the presence of the other is indeed more corporeal and
revelatory of Forster’s acquired maturity in his ways of dealing with the
responsibility of thinking and representing otherness. |
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| spelling | 123456789-6082026-02-18T06:15:28Z Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Passage to India x Pierini, Francesca Pierini This paper proposes a reflection on E.M. Forster’s literary construction of national otherness through a reading of two specific scenes, from his first and last published novels, that centre on the depiction of foreign crowds. From Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) to A Passage to India (1924), it is possible to detect a movement of growing awareness, within Forster’s consciousness, of the presence of the other. If the encounter with the Italian other is still highly mediated by an age-long literary tradition of fantasizing about the south of Europe that had depicted countries like Italy as unique constellations of counter-values to the British ethos, in A Passage to India the presence of the other is indeed more corporeal and revelatory of Forster’s acquired maturity in his ways of dealing with the responsibility of thinking and representing otherness. This paper proposes a reflection on E.M. Forster’s literary construction of national otherness through a reading of two specific scenes, from his first and last published novels, that centre on the depiction of foreign crowds. From Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) to A Passage to India (1924), it is possible to detect a movement of growing awareness, within Forster’s consciousness, of the presence of the other. If the encounter with the Italian other is still highly mediated by an age-long literary tradition of fantasizing about the south of Europe that had depicted countries like Italy as unique constellations of counter-values to the British ethos, in A Passage to India the presence of the other is indeed more corporeal and revelatory of Forster’s acquired maturity in his ways of dealing with the responsibility of thinking and representing otherness. 2025-07-20T08:45:35Z 2025-07-20T08:45:35Z 2025 Thesis https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/608 en application/pdf AUW |
| spellingShingle | This paper proposes a reflection on E.M. Forster’s literary construction of national otherness through a reading of two specific scenes, from his first and last published novels, that centre on the depiction of foreign crowds. From Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) to A Passage to India (1924), it is possible to detect a movement of growing awareness, within Forster’s consciousness, of the presence of the other. If the encounter with the Italian other is still highly mediated by an age-long literary tradition of fantasizing about the south of Europe that had depicted countries like Italy as unique constellations of counter-values to the British ethos, in A Passage to India the presence of the other is indeed more corporeal and revelatory of Forster’s acquired maturity in his ways of dealing with the responsibility of thinking and representing otherness. x Pierini, Francesca Pierini Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Passage to India |
| title | Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Passage to India |
| title_full | Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Passage to India |
| title_fullStr | Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Passage to India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Passage to India |
| title_short | Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Passage to India |
| title_sort | multitudes of otherness italian and indian crowds in forster s where angels fear to tread and a passage to india |
| topic | This paper proposes a reflection on E.M. Forster’s literary construction of national otherness through a reading of two specific scenes, from his first and last published novels, that centre on the depiction of foreign crowds. From Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) to A Passage to India (1924), it is possible to detect a movement of growing awareness, within Forster’s consciousness, of the presence of the other. If the encounter with the Italian other is still highly mediated by an age-long literary tradition of fantasizing about the south of Europe that had depicted countries like Italy as unique constellations of counter-values to the British ethos, in A Passage to India the presence of the other is indeed more corporeal and revelatory of Forster’s acquired maturity in his ways of dealing with the responsibility of thinking and representing otherness. |
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