"Howards End"

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This research examines the novel "Howards End" by E.M. Forster as a story of social critique from the critical vantage point of the ethics writer Martha C. Nussbaum. The research sets forth the context in which Nussbaum's views achieve relevance for the pattern of social criticism in Forster's novel and then discusses how those views intersect with the means by which Forster brings out his ideas and elaborates on various novelistic themes.

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"A similar dynamic is readily observable in Forster's Howards End, although Forster speaks less to social and economic conditions per se than to the content of human experience where the social implications of modern industrial society are always in the background informing that experience. To see how this dynamic is played out, it is useful to look at the way Nussbaum deals with utilitarian social analysis. She cites two general utilitarian models, one that was contemporary with Dickens and one that achieved increasing resonance in the industrialized world over the course of the 20th century. In what is referred to as the classic utilitarian social model, the focus is on the big picture of aggregate social results of rather than individual or group experiences within social organization."

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