The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence - Fernihough, Anne (ed.)
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The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence contains fourteen chapters by leading international scholars. They offer 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 concluding chapter addresses the vexed history of Lawrence's critical reception…mehr

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The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence contains fourteen chapters by leading international scholars. They offer 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 concluding chapter addresses the vexed history of Lawrence's critical reception throughout the twentieth century. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

Table of contents:
List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Chronology; 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 Torgovonick; 3. Sex and the nation: 'The Prussian Officer' and Women in Love Hugh Stevens; 4. Lawrence in the 1920s: decolonising imagination 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.

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 essays offer diverse and stimulating readings of Lawrence's major novels, short stories, poetry and plays.

This Companion offers a series of new perspectives on one D. H. Lawrence.
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'The excellent Companion certainly testifies to Lawrence's multifariousness, managing to do justice to a substantial amount of his achievement; to survey his critical legacy; and to add valuable new approaches to it.' The Times Literary Supplement