E. M. Forster - Critical Assessments Volumes 1-4

These are second-hand copies of the E. M. Forster - Critical Assessments Volumes 1-4. 

Condition: These are used books in good condition. Volume 2 has scuffing on the back cover.

Publisher: Helm Information
Year: 1998
Format: Hardbacks
Pages: Vol. 1 350, Vol. 2 351, Vol. 3 455, Vol. 4 441
Condition: Used (Good)

An attractively produced set bringing together much of the most important critical material on Forster. Vol. 1: Memories and Impressions; Reviews: Where Angels Fear to Tread to The Life to Come and Other Stories; Vol. 2: The Critical Response: Early Responses 1907-44; The Short Fiction; Forster's Criticism; Miscellaneous Writings; Vol. 3: The Modern Critical Response: Where Angels Fear to Tread to Maurice; Vol. 4: Relations and Aspects; The Modern Critical Response, 1945-90. From the publisher's description: "Volume I contains the usual critical apparatus; introduction, chronology of Forster's life; bibliography of his works; critical bibliographies; chronological list of criticism included and then continues with a selection of personal recollections and obituaries. It offers contemporary reviews of Forster's fiction, biographies and essay collections from Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) to The Life to Come and Other Stories (1972). Volume II concentrates first on general assessments of Forster's work as a whole and then offers criticism of the early short stories, the posthumously published short fiction and miscellaneous writings. Volume III presents responses to each of Forster's six novels, presented in chronological order, allowing the reader to follow the evolution of the assessments of a given novel over time as well as the changes in critical trends. Volume IV ranges widely from assessments of Forster as a critic himself to discussions of his fiction, aesthetics and thought in a relation to other writers; reactions to the film versions; and then a sections of essays from 1945 concentrating on the larger philosophical, ideological, social and literary issues raised by Forster's achievement as a whole rather than of individual writings."