Gaku Iwai

D. H. Lawrence and Ambivalence in the Age of Modernity

Rereading Midlands Novels and Wartime Writings in Social and Political Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

Comparing Lawrence's texts to various major and minor contemporary novels, journal articles, political pamphlets and history books, this book aims to demonstrate that Lawrence's texts are ambivalent.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781032675664
• ISBN-10: 1032675667
• Artikelnr.: 70115363

Autorenporträt

Gaku Iwai is Professor of English at Konan University in Kobe, Japan. He is a co-editor and co-translator of the Japanese version of the Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, and the former chief editor of Japan D. H. Lawrence Studies. He has published numerous articles on D. H. Lawrence, J. M. Barrie, J. G. Ballard and Margaret Atwood, among others. He is also a co-author of several books on Lawrence and twentieth-century British writers, including D. H. Lawrence, Technology, and Modernity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Annihilating Borders: Nature, Human Beings, Machinery in "Odour of
Chrysanthemums"
Chapter 1. Degeneration, Aestheticism and Empire: Middle-Class Ideology and
The White Peacock
Chapter 2. Bestwood and the Morels under Evolution: Parallelism through
Procreation and Evolution in Sons and Lovers
Chapter 3. The Brangwens and Construction of the Towns in The Rainbow
Chapter 4. Lawrence and War: Historical Contexts
I. Lawrence and the First World War
II. Lawrence and Anti-German Propaganda
III. History Books in Context
Chapter 5. Wartime Discourses on War and Peace in Movements in European
History
I. The Germanic Race
II. The Huns
III. The Unification of Germany
Chapter 6. To Produce, or Not to Produce, That is the Question:
Materialism, Democracy and War in Women in Love
Chapter 7. Wartime Short Stories from "The Thimble" to "The Blind Man" and
"Tickets Please"
I. Popular Wartime Romance and Lawrence's Anti-Romance: Berta Ruck's "The
Infant-in Arms" and Lawrence's "The Thimble"
II. The Path to Resurrection or Becoming a War Machine in "New Heaven and
Earth", "Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani" and "England, My England"
III. Short Fiction in 1918: "The Fox", "The Blind Man" and "Tickets Please"
Chapter 8. Class Conflicts in Ambivalence from "Daughters of the Vicar" and
"Hadrian" to Lady Chatterley's Lover
I. Middle-Class Anxiety and its Solution in "Daughters of the Vicar"
II. Returned Soldier and Working-Class Threat in "Hadrian"
III. Lady Chatterley's Lover: Temptation to the Bourgeois Myth
Epilogue. Which Class Do Lawrence's Texts Belong To?