New D.H. Lawrence

by Booth, Howard J.

• ISBN13: 9780719078361
• ISBN10: 0719078369
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-26
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

*New D.H. Lawrence* uses current and emergent approaches in literary studies to explore one of Britain’s major modernist writers. The collection features new work by the present generation of Lawrence scholars, who are brought together here for the first time in one place. Lawrence’s texts are seen as deeply critical of the modern West, where his controversial search for alternatives led him to stretch and press available thought, language and literary forms to new ends.Chapters include: Andrew Harrison on the marketing of Sons and Lovers; Howard J. Booth on The Rainbow, Marxist criticism and colonialism; Holly A. Laird on ethics and suicide in Women in Love; Hugh Stevens on psychoanalysis and war in Women in Love; Jeff Wallace on Lawrence, Deleuze and abstraction; Stefania Michelucci on myth and war in ‘The Ladybird’; Bethan Jones on gender and comedy in the late short fiction; Fiona Becket on green cultural critique, Apocalypse and Birds, Beasts and Flowers; and Sean Matthews on class, Leavis and the trial of Lady Chatterley.New D.H. Lawrence will be of interest to all concerned with contemporary writing on Lawrence, modernism and English radical cultures.

Author Biography

Howard J. Booth is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of abbreviations and editions	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Dust-jackets, blurbs and forewords: the marketing of Sons and Lovers	p. 17
The Rainbow, British Marxist criticism of the 1930s and colonialism	p. 34
Suicide in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love: a modernist ethics	p. 59
Women in Love, psychoanalysis and war	p. 80
51/49: democracy, abstraction and the machine in Lawrence, Deleuze and their readings of Whitman	p. 98
The line and the circle: D.H. Lawrence, the First World War and myth	p. 117
Disappearing tricks: comedy and gender in D.H. Lawrence's late short fiction	p. 130
D.H. Lawrence, language and green cultural critique	p. 148
The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover: 'The most thorough and expensive seminar on Lawrence's work ever given'	p. 169
Index	p. 193
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