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Which influential intellectual group was Forster a member of?

AThe Fabian Society

BThe Bloomsbury Group

CThe Round Table

DThe Inklings

Answer:

B. The Bloomsbury Group

Read Explanation:

  • Forster's views as a secular humanist are at the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of personal connections despite the restrictions of contemporary society.

  • He is noted for using symbolism as a technique in his novels, and he has been criticized for his attachment to mysticism.

  • Forster attended King’s College, Cambridge from 1897 to 1901, studying history, literature, and philosophy.

  • He became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a discussion society steeped in philosophical skepticism that shaped Forster’s liberalism and led him to shed his Christian faith, among the Apostles who had. A formative intellectual influence upon Forster was Sir James Frazer, G.E. Moore, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, and several future members of the Bloomsbury Group.

  • An Edwardian modernist, he criticized Victorian middle-class mores in formally traditional novels; a writer who idealized connection and sincerity above all else.

  • Forster contributed stories and sketches to the Independent Review in 1904 and later published a number of works in the Athenaeum, a London literary magazine that also printed work by Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot, and others. His first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, was published in 1905.


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