Chapter 1 Introduction — Liberal, Humanist, Modernist, Queer? Reclaiming Forster’s Legacies

Chapter 2 ’He is one of your hollow men’: Homosexuality and Sublimation in Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust

Chapter 4 Of ‘planetary strangers’: Humanism in Nadine Gordimer’s The Lying Days and Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient

Chapter 5 The Politics of Friendship and Hospitality: Liberalism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and The Moor’s Last Sigh and in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty

Chapter 6 Conclusion: Towards a Cosmopolitan Humanism