George Bahlke
Hamilton College, USA
Dualities in E. M. Forster's "The Longest Journey" and D. H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" Dualities; Forster; Lawrence
Not only did E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence admire one another's work (in his Aspects of the Novel [1927] Forster placed Lawrence among novelists he considered prophetic, Emily Bronte, Dostoyevsky, and Melville), but also each one wrote an autobiographical novel, Forster, "The Longest Journey," and Lawrence, "Sons and Lovers." Both novels reveal that their writers were not entirely aware of their novels' true subjects. The subtext in "The Longest Journey" is that Rickie Elliott, its failed.