Some critics focus on the art and music of this novel. Frederick P.W. McDowell admires Forster for “his capacity for enjoyment, his interest in art and music, his involvement with literature, and his basically dilettante disposition” (1982:1). And Michelle Fillion regards the novel to be “in many ways his most musical novel. Not only is it indebted to structural principles inspired by Richard Wagner’s music dreams, but its symbolic world also depends on musical allusion” according to his work Difficult Rhythm: Music and the Word in E.M. Forster.

Many critics also pay much attention to his witty and elegant language and the unique writing style, even the rebellious social moral awareness. K.W Gransden, in his E. M. Forster, says that “A Room with a View is much closer to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice than all his other novels; but it is a novel that has Laurence’s characteristic most”. Even Virginia Woolf regards this novel as a wonder for its inner beauty in her article The Novels of E.M Forster.

Comparatively speaking, in China, the researches on this novel are late and not sufficient. At first, many researchers and scholars pay much attention to Forster’s collection of criticism Aspects of the Novel and his anti-colonial novel A Passage to India. There are two monographs up to now, An Intertextual Reading of E.M Forster’s Novels by Li Jianbo and The Evolution of Cultural Identity--A Study of E.M Forster’s Novels and thoughts, which explore E.M Forster’s novels through the intertextual reading and liberal humanistic thoughts.

So far, in China Academic Literature Full-text Database and China Academic Journals, there have been about 166 essays on the novel in total from 2000 to 2017, which mainly analyze the novel from the following aspects: (a)Around 60 essays make an analysis on the female consciousness, feminism and female growth;(b)24 essays explore the humanism in the novel;(c)19 essays probe into the symbolism;(d)9 essays discuss the writing technique of rhythm in the novel;(e)62 other different articles, which focuses on discourse analysis, narrative voice or artistic techniques, paternal image, marriage value, the theme, etc. The pie chart in the following clearly displays the research situation: