Nour Dakkak is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Arab Open University, Kuwait. She’s the co-editor of Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside (2021) with Jo Carruthers and Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930 (2020) with Jo Carruthers and Rebecca Spence. Her research examines human–world relations in early-twentieth century literature and culture.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: E. M. Forster’s Material HumanismLiberal Non/HumanismEmbodied HumanismDisembodied ModernityQueering NatureQueer MattersNotes1. Artificial Matters: Modernity, Apathy, ConformityNonconforming BodiesIdealised BodiesApathetic BodiesNotes2. Organic Matters: Chaos, Unpredictability, IntimacyChaperoned EncountersChaotic EncountersVulnerable BodiesNotes3. Queer Matters: DustDust as a ThingControlling DustThe "Other" DustNotesConclusionBibliographyIndex

Nour Dakkak is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Arab Open University, Kuwait. She’s the co-editor of Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside (2021) with Jo Carruthers and Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930 (2020) with Jo Carruthers and Rebecca Spence. Her research examines human–world relations in early-twentieth century literature and culture.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: E. M. Forster’s Material HumanismLiberal Non/HumanismEmbodied HumanismDisembodied ModernityQueering NatureQueer MattersNotes1. Artificial Matters: Modernity, Apathy, ConformityNonconforming BodiesIdealised BodiesApathetic BodiesNotes2. Organic Matters: Chaos, Unpredictability, IntimacyChaperoned EncountersChaotic EncountersVulnerable BodiesNotes3. Queer Matters: DustDust as a ThingControlling DustThe "Other" DustNotesConclusionBibliographyIndex

Nour Dakkak is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Arab Open University, Kuwait. She’s the co-editor of Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside (2021) with Jo Carruthers and Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930 (2020) with Jo Carruthers and Rebecca Spence. Her research examines human–world relations in early-twentieth century literature and culture.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: E. M. Forster’s Material HumanismLiberal Non/HumanismEmbodied HumanismDisembodied ModernityQueering NatureQueer MattersNotes1. Artificial Matters: Modernity, Apathy, ConformityNonconforming BodiesIdealised BodiesApathetic BodiesNotes2. Organic Matters: Chaos, Unpredictability, IntimacyChaperoned EncountersChaotic EncountersVulnerable BodiesNotes3. Queer Matters: DustDust as a ThingControlling DustThe "Other" DustNotesConclusionBibliographyIndex