Comments on: Did Masterpiece Theater Get It Right With ‘A Room With a View’? http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/did-masterpiece-theater-get-it-right-with-a-room-with-a-view/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Thu, 16 May 2013 19:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/did-masterpiece-theater-get-it-right-with-a-room-with-a-view/#comment-6008 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:17:03 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=928#comment-6008 That lecture sounds great. Thanks so much for calling it to my attention. I’ll read it and perhaps quote from it on this site at some point.

Jan

]]> By: Arti http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/did-masterpiece-theater-get-it-right-with-a-room-with-a-view/#comment-6007 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:10:34 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=928#comment-6007 Forster certainly is not a ‘romance writer’. But A Room with a View is about love, as well as about many other issues, among them the ubiquitous social inequalities of his time. These themes are not mutually exclusive of each other. A good writer is one that can integrate these complex issues in an insightful and captivating manner in his story. Both Forster and Austen are successful in this way. The multiplicity of roles and emphasis certainly are at work too. Zadie Smith’s 2003 Orange Word Lecture on Forster, Austen, and love offers an ingenious perspective on this subject.

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