Through attending to the nonhuman, this book places Forster's fiction in conversation with contemporary debates in environmental humanities and queer ecology. It revisits Forster's liberal humanism from a materialist perspective

Nour Dakkak is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Arab Open University, Kuwait. She's the co-editor of Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside (2021) with Jo Carruthers and Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930 (2020) with Jo Carruthers and Rebecca Spence. Her research examines human-world relations in early-twentieth century literature and culture.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: E. M. Forster's Material Humanism

Liberal Non/Humanism
Embodied Humanism
Disembodied Modernity
Queering Nature
Queer Matters
Notes

1. Artificial Matters: Modernity, Apathy, Conformity

Nonconforming Bodies
Idealised Bodies
Apathetic Bodies
Notes

2. Organic Matters: Chaos, Unpredictability, Intimacy

Chaperoned Encounters
Chaotic Encounters
Vulnerable Bodies
Notes

3. Queer Matters: Dust

Dust as a Thing
Controlling Dust
The "Other" Dust
Notes

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index