The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence

by Edited by Anne Fernihough

• ISBN13: 9780521626170
• ISBN10: 052162617X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 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 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

Notes on contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Chronology	xiv
List of abbreviations	xviii
Introduction	1	(14)
Anne Fernihough
PART I TEXTS
Ideas, histories, generations and beliefs: the early novels to Sons and Lovers	15	(18)
Rick Rylance
Narrating sexuality: The Rainbow	33	(16)
Marianna Torgovnick
Sex and the nation: 'The Prussian Officer' and Women in Love	49	(18)
Hugh Stevens
Decolonising imagination: Lawrence in the 1920s	67	(20)
Mark Kinkead-Weekes
Work and selfhood in Lady Chatterley's Lover	87	(16)
Morag Shiach
Lawrence's tales	103	(16)
Con Coroneos
Trudi Tate
Lawrence's poetry	119	(18)
Hellen Sword
Lawrence as dramatist	137	(20)
John Worthen
PART II CONTEXTS AND CRITICAL ISSUES
The biographical issue: lives of Lawrence	157	(22)
Paul Eggert
Lawrence and modernism	179	(18)
Michael Bell
Lawrence and the politics of sexual politics	197	(20)
Drew Milne
Lawrence and psychoanalysis	217	(18)
Fiona Becket
Apocalypse now (and then). Or, D. H. Lawrence and the swan in the electron	235	(18)
Sandra M. Gilbert
Post-mortem: Lawrence's critical and cultural legacy	253	(18)
Chris Baldick
Guide to further reading	271	(14)
Paul Poplawski
Index	285