Where Angels Fear to Tread (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: E. M. Forster
- First Published: 1905
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Marriage, Emotions, England or English people, Human behavior, Widows or widowers, Italy or Italians
- Locales: England, Tuscany, Italy
Places Discussed
Sawston. English town that is home to the conventional middle-class Herriton family. E. M. Forster modeled this dreary, repressive town on Tonbridge, Kent, southeast of London, where he himself had attended school. A gray place preoccupied with duty, respectability, and tradition, Sawston represents the worst of English repression of self and others.
When family friend Caroline Abbott later dreams of the Italian town Poggibonsi as a “joyless, straggling place, full of people who pretended,” she recognizes it as Sawston. At the end of the novel,...
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E. M. Forster (Cyclopedia of World Authors)E. M. Forster (Short Fiction)E. M. Forster (Dictionary of World Biography)E. M. Forster (Long Fiction)
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