[Book review of] Cedric Van Dijck, 2023. Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)

Readers of Forster will find in Cedric Van Dijck’s monograph a thorough
contextualization of his Egyptian writings as part of an argument about the cul-
tural history of the First World War. Forster’s texts of Alexandria are placed
in the environment of the liminal city where they were written, filled with
a mass of images and items, many of them displaced by war, and often strange
multilingual utterances. Equally, they appear in a new light when put alongside
what Apollinaire, Woolf, Mirrlees, and Anand did with the objects of war.