{"id":3153,"date":"2005-06-16T07:59:39","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T11:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2010-07-13T07:25:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T11:25:35","slug":"em-forster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3153","title":{"rendered":"EM Forster: &#8220;an inverted Victorianism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<i>Ulysses<\/i> is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud.  It is an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <i>EM Forster<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>EM Forster also called <i>Ulysses<\/i>:  &#8220;Perhaps the most interesting literary experiment of our day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, no one was neutral about this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ulysses is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud. It is an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[992,566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19017,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/19017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}