Synopses & Reviews
The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence offers a series of new perspectives on one of the most important and controversial writers of the twentieth century. These specially commissioned essays offer diverse and stimulating readings of Lawrence's major novels, short stories, poetry and plays, and place Lawrence's writing in a variety of literary, cultural, and political contexts, such as modernism, sexual and ethnic identity, and psychoanalysis. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
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"The present title is especially useful because of the seemingly unstoppable flood of the new of Lawrence's works...Well-documented essays" CHOICE Dec 2001
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"...excellent in its style and scope..." New York Review of Books
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Chronology; List of abbreviations; Introduction Anne Fernihough; Part I. Texts: 1. Ideas, histories, generations and beliefs: the early novels to Sons and Lovers Rick Rylance; 2. Narrating sexuality: The Rainbow Marianna Torgovnick; 3. Sex and the nation: 'The Prussian Officer' and Women in Love Hugh Stevens; 4. Decolonising imagination: Lawrence in the 1920s Mark Kinkead-Weekes; 5. Work and selfhood in Lady Chatterley's Lover Morag Shiach; 6. Lawrence's tales Con Coroneos and Trudi Tate; 7. Lawrence's poetry Helen Sword; 8. Lawrence as dramatist John Worthen; Part II. Contexts and Critical Issues: 9. The biographical issue: lives of Lawrence Paul Eggert; 10. Lawrence and modernism Michael Bell; 11. Lawrence and the politics of sexual politics Drew Milne; 12. Lawrence and psychoanalysis Fiona Becket; 13. Apocalypse now (and then). Or, D. H. Lawrence and the swan in the electron Sandra M. Gilbert; 14. Post-mortem: Lawrence's critical and cultural legacy Chris Baldick; Guide to further reading Paul Poplawski; Index.