... pragmatic, materialistic aspect). Published in 1910, the story of "Howard's End" takes place during a period of great change. The era is now associated with the birth of 'modernism'; a time of artistic and literary progression, as well as social and human transformation. Forster may or may not have been a modernist, but in his writing of "Howard's End," he brings the reader ... into a type of "limbo," toggling the text toward a point of realism, before steering in in more obvious modernist conventions. By employing the use of an omniscient and often intrusive narrator, Forster commands a...

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