福斯特是英国最杰出的作家之一，他同劳伦斯，约瑟夫康拉德，弗吉尼亚伍尔夫被称为是20世纪最伟大的作家。他一生致力于写作，通过文字向读者传递了他对自由，个人社交关系等的信仰。福斯特喜爱旅游，到世界各地的旅游给他提供了写作的灵感。1901年福斯特前往印度，途径意大利，在意大利的停驻让他了解到意大利的风土人情，为《看的见风景的房间》的创作积累丰富的材料。福斯特写作的主题之一是异质文化冲突，突出表现在意大利文化和英国文化的冲突，主人公内心的双重文化冲突，等等。在《看的见风景的房间》中，文化冲突还表现在自由人文思想和僵化思想的冲突上。小说中通过对女主人公摆脱僵化思想束缚的描写，倡导自由主义。另外一个重点是英国中产阶级“未能发育的心”，他们有着发达而健壮的躯体，良好训练的思维，却有着未能发育的心。以塞西尔为代表的中产阶级和以爱默生父子为代表的自由主义者之间有着无法调解的冲突。这篇论文将从当时社会历史背景出发去剖析《看的见风景的房间》中的各种文化冲突。

Together with D.H Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf, E.M Forster has been regarded as one of the greatest writers in 20th century. Being dedicated in writing for his entire life, he managed to convey his belief in liberalism, romantic tradition and personal relationships by words. Travel had a significant effect on his writing, especially the novels. His travel to Italy contributed to the Italian novel A Room with a View-his “most Jane-Austenlike” novel. One of this novel’s major motifs can be classified as cultural conflicts, which embodies the conflicts between British and Italian cultures the conflicts between medieval and Renaissance cultures, the heroine Lucy’s inward conflicts, and so on. The process of the story is accompanied by Lucy’s inwardly natural needs against the outmoded conventions. Furthermore, conflicts are reflected in forms of conventionality and naturalness, externality and internality, and fossilized thinking and freedom. Liberalism is advocated here, with the emancipating of the middle class female, Lucy, from the medieval bounds. Another key point is the “undeveloped heart”, typically occupied by Cecil, who is “with well-developed body, fairly developed mind” but artificial, snobbish, and languid. He here stands for the conventional British middle class. This flock of people is in conflict with the liberals represented by the Emersons. Thus this paper will focus on unfolding the cultural conflicts in different aspects. By making full use of the information of then social and historical background, the overall cultural conflicts will be clearly understood. Thus the approach to this novel will be deepened.