Howards End, E. M. Forster - Henry S. Turner (essay date fall 2000)
Henry S. Turner (essay date fall 2000)
SOURCE: Turner, Henry S. “Empires of Objects: Accumulation and Entropy in E. M. Forster's Howards End.” Twentieth Century Literature 46, no. 3 (fall 2000): 328-45.
[In the following essay, Turner examines the meaning of money, objects, and accumulation in Howards End.]
[T]here seems something else in life besides time, something which may conveniently be called “value,” something which is measured not by minutes or hours, but by intensity, so that when we look at our past it does not stretch back evenly but piles up into a few notable pinnacles …
—E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel 19
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
—E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy 6-7
Speaking to a BBC audience in 1946 on the topic of the...
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