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New Literary History focuses on theory and interpretation-the reasons for literary change, the definitions of periods, and the evolution of styles, conventions, and genres. Throughout its history, NLH has always resisted short-lived trends and subsuming ideologies. By delving into the theoretical bases of practical criticism, the journal reexamines the relation between past works and present critical and theoretical needs. A major international forum for scholarly interchange, NLH has brought into English many of today' s foremost theorists whose works had never before been translated. Under Ralph Cohen's continuous editorship, NLH has become what he envisioned over thirty years ago: "a journal that is a challenge to the profession of letters." NLH has the unique distinction of receiving six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). Vol. 38, no 2 (printemps 2007) Sidorsky, David The Uses of the Philosophy of G. E. Moore in the Works of E. M. Forster This essay, as its title “The Uses of the Philosophy of G. E. Moore in the Works of E. M. Forster” indicates, examines the ways in which Moore’s philosophical thought, particularly the ethical theory that was formulated at Cambridge during Forster’s student years and published as Principia Ethica in 1903, influenced the writings of E. M. Forster. Specifically, aspects of both the persona and philosophy of Moore are examined in three of Forster’s novels. In The Longest Journey of 1907, the doctrines of moral and metaphysical realism that Moore taught to Forster at Cambridge emerge as the major theme of engagement and contention among the characters of the novel. In Howards End of 1910, Forster symbolically projected the promise of “Moorism” (the term used by Moore’s advocates in Bloomsbury) as a moral philosophy for the reform of English public life and for the resolution of the challenges of industrialization and urbanization that confronted Edwardian England. In A Passage to India of 1924, Forster used the character of Mrs. Moore to demonstrate that Moore’s “method” of philosophical dialectic could be directed to rectify an injustice of imperial rule and to clarify personal relationships. Forster’s continued support for Moore’s approach in the domain of personal relations even as he recognized its limitations as a public philosophy in postwar society is set in this essay against John Maynard Keynes’s criticism of the Bloomsbury commitment to Moore’s thought as sketched in Keynes’s memoir “My Early Beliefs.” Aspects of Moore’s thought reverberated in Forster’s essays which marked his emergence as a major public advocate of anti-Nazism and liberal democracy in the 1930s and 1940s, characteristically expressed in such moderate and ironic [...] Lire la suite sur Infos Fabula
