A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster

A Room with a View: Style 1 key example

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Explanation and Analysis:

A Room With a View is very much an Edwardian novel, just as Forster was very much a Bloomsbury author. The Bloomsbury Group was a circle of British writers, philosophers, and artists who associated with each other from the first decade of the 20th century until the early 1930s. Whether through the medium of visual art or writing, members of the Bloomsbury Group sought to use innovative ideas and methods to break with the bourgeois conservatism of Victorian tradition. As most of them came from upper-middle-class families, these privileged and highly educated intellectuals seemed somewhat hypocritical in their liberal aims and projects. Nevertheless, they were influential in their critique of British society and their development of modernism.