D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers A Casebook

by Worthen, John; Harrison, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780195170412
• ISBN10: 0195170415
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This casebook on D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers is the first to address itself to the full text of the novel, first published in 1992. The introduction discusses the novel's composition and the range of approaches adopted by critics since its original publication in 1913. The nine essaysthat follow demonstrate the full extent of the contemporary critical response, from studies of narrative technique to psychoanalytic and gender-based analysis, and set the critical agenda for its study in the twenty-first century. This collection also reproduces excerpts from Lawrence's lettersrelating to Sons and Lovers, along with a full transcription of Alfred Booth Kuttner's 1916 Freudian analysis of the work.

Author Biography

John Worthen is Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham. Andrew Harrison is a tutor in English literature at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(24)
ANDREW HARRISON
Excerpts from Lawrence's Letters	27	(4)
"A Restrained, Somewhat Impersonal Novel"	31	(22)
MICHAEL BELL
Form: Narrative Structure	53	(24)
MICHAEL BLACK
Relationship and Class in Sons and Lovers	77	(14)
MACDONALD DALY
A Modern Psychoanalytic Approach to Sons and Lovers	91	(48)
BARBARA ANN SCHAPIRO
Images of Women in Sons and Lovers	139	(16)
MARGARET STORCH
Forms of Expression in Sons and Lovers	155	(34)
JACK STEWART
Sons and Lovers: Flight from the [S]mothering Text	189	(30)
LOUIS K. GREIFF
Ideas, Histories, Generations and Beliefs: The Early Novels to Sons and Lovers	219	(24)
RICK RYLANCE
Interwoven Words, Interactive Feelings: Paul Morel and Sons and Lovers	243	(20)
HELEN BARON
APPENDIX Sons and Lovers: A Freudian Appreciation [1916]	263	(30)
ALFRED BOOTH KUTTNER
Suggested Reading	293	(6)
Index	299