David Game

D.H. Lawrence's Australia

Anxiety at the Edge of Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

In this first full-length account of D.H. Lawrence's rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating, Game examines how Australia informed the utopian and regenerative visions that characterize so much of Lawrence's work. He sheds new light on Lawrence's attitudes towards Australian Aborigines, women and colonialism, and re

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780367879914
• ISBN-10: 0367879913
• Artikelnr.: 58440016

Autorenporträt

David Game is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Darwinism and Lawrence's quest for regeneration: 'a new conception of what it means
to live'. Regeneration
the rejection of eugenics
and Rananim in Australia. Lawrence decides to travel to Australia. Imagining Australia: 'The Vicar's Garden'
The White Peacock
The Daughter-in-Law
'The Primrose Path'
The Lost Girl
Aaron's Rod
and Mr Noon. 'Pommy'
'Pommygranate'
and 'Pommigrant' in Kangaroo: Mr and Mrs Somers
the amateur emigrants. Aspects of degeneration in Kangaroo - 'A novel
shot with a wayward beauty'. 'Kangaroo' and the spirit of Australia. The race for the bush: the Australian Aboriginal presence and British race regeneration in Kangaroo and The Boy in the Bush. Matriarchy
mates and bigamy in The Boy in the Bush. The aristocrat in the bush: some textual origins for the questing hero in The Boy in the Bush. Out of place: colonial Australians in St. Mawr. Last words: 'Preface to Black Swans'
'The Hand'
Lady Chatterley's Lover
'Eve in the Land of Nod'
P.R. Stephensen - Mandrake press and 'Introduction to Pansies'
Mimosa Letters.