Willa Cather and E. M. Forster examines the novels of these influential twentieth-century writers in the context of liberal humanism and modernism, as well as the important questions their work continues to raise about being in the world, connections with the Other, and gender and sexuality.

Acknowledgments and Permissions
Chapter One - The Atmosphere of Transatlantic Liberalism
Chapter Two - Finding a Voice: The Song of the Lark and A Room with a View
Chapter Three - Rooms with/out Views: The Poetics of Space in Howards End and The Professor's House
Chapter Four - Mosque, Cathedral, Temple, Cave: Religion as Architecture in Death Comes for the Archbishop and A Passage to India
Chapter Five - "The Unseen Things in the Hidden Places of the Earth": The D.H. Lawrence Connection
Chapter Six - The Sexualized Landscapes of Cather and Forster
Works Cited
Index
About the Author