Howards End

painting of the campus of Nichols College, with a myriad of brick buildings, a football field, and winding paths carved out from a surrounding, green forest

Compact Spaces and Relationships in Howards End and On Beauty

ByCeillie Clark-Keane

E.M. Forster’s novel is deeply concerned with compactly contained relationships, as well as the ideas and spaces that forge these connections. Zadie Smith’s modern-day retelling explores similarly contained personal relationships with a significant update: the book is set on a college campus.