Article Title

J.R.R. Tolkien and the 1954 Nomination of E.M. Forster for the Nobel Prize in Literature

Authors

Dennis Wilson Wise, University of Arizona

Abstract

Wise speculates on the involvement of J.R.R. Tolkien in the group nomination of E.M Forster for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954; he discusses not only the politics behind the nomination but reads Forster’s Howards End and A Passage to India in the light of the tension between Tolkien’s interests in nationalism and inter-racial cooperation.