Synopses & Reviews
-- Outlines his life and intellectual background and their effect on he and his writings.
-- Explores important places and people in Joyce's life and their effect on him.
-- Looks in detail at many of Lawrence's works, including, Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow, as well as, his shorter fiction and plays.
D. H. Lawrence, criticized, censored and dismissed in his early lifetime, now stands as one of the major imaginative novelists of the early twentieth century. Clear, vivid and convincing, Gamini Salgado's introduction to the life and works of D.H. Lawrence sets the writer firmly in the context of his times. The Preface Books series approaches the work of D H Lawrence from a particular perspective which, by introducing the writer via a biographical sketch and a survey of his cultural and social influence, encourages readers to understand her work in the period and style it was written.
Synopsis
'Longman Preface books are intended to give modern and authoritative guidance on the lives and works of the major writers ... Gamini Salgado's A Preface to Lawrence does just that.' Times Educational Supplement
D. H. Lawrence, criticised, censored and dismissed in his lifetime, now stands as one of the major imaginative novelists of the early twentieth-century.
Clear, vivid and convincing, Gamini Salgado's introduction to the life and works of D H Lawrence, sets the writer firmly in the context of his times and:
* outlines his life and intellectual background, and their effect on his writing
* looks in detail at many of Lawrence's works, including Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, his shorter fiction, poetry and plays
* examines Lawrence as a literary critic
* covers important people and places in Lawrence's life and their effect on him
Gamini Salgado was formerly Professor of English at Exeter University. His works include a book on Sons and Lovers (Arnold), an anthology of critisism of it (Macmillan) and a number of studies of drama and prose literature.