D. H. Lawrence Aesthetics and Ideology

by Fernihough, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780198112358
• ISBN10: 0198112351
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-09-16
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

The vast body of Lawrence scholarship has veered between the extremes of uncritical celebration and violent denigration. This first extended study of Lawrence's aesthetics draws on a number of modern critical approaches to present an original and balanced analysis of Lawrence's literary and art criticism, and of the complex cultural context from which it emerged. This fascinating and lucid study reveals Lawrence's art criticism as pluralistic and anti-authoritarian, a necessary antidote to his sometimes brutally authoritarian politics and to the dogma and rigidity that pervades so many other areas of Lawrence's thought.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Totalizing Organic: Lawrence and Fascism	p. 16
The Fractured Organic: Lawrence's Aesthetics	p. 34
Analysing the Analyst: Lawrence's Clash with Freud	p. 61
Lawrence and Bloomsbury I: Significant Form	p. 83
Lawrence and Bloomsbury II: Art versus Text	p. 100
Lawrence and Bloomsbury III: Cezanne's Apple	p. 117
Art and Technology: Victorian Predecessors	p. 130
Lawrence and Heidegger I: The World as Object	p. 140
Lawrence and Heidegger II: The World as Work of Art	p. 154
An 'Anti-Imperialist' Aesthetics	p. 171
Epilogue: An Aesthetics of the Body?	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 192
Index	p. 207
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