Triumph to Exile 1912-1922

by Kinkead-Weekes, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781107403000
• ISBN10: 1107403006
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-24
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 191222, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and most controversial writers of the twentieth century. During this period Lawrence produced the trio of novels with which he was to revolutionise English fiction over the next decade. It was a painful process: Sons and Lovers was crudely cut by its publisher; The Rainbow was destroyed by court order; and Women in Love took almost three years to find a publisher. This 1996 biography tells the writing life too, tracing the illuminating relations between man and manuscript, without confusing life and art. Drawing on previously unseen information from the Cambridge Editions of the Letters and Works, and original research, fresh light is shed on questions of Lawrence's sexuality, health, quarrels and friendships, which have been more often gossiped or theorised about than scrupulously examined.

Table of Contents

A World of Promise

New life

New utterance

The Wedding Ring

Spear in the Side

The Rainbow

Rainbow's end

Cornwall

Midwinter life

Orpheus descending

A Kind of Wintering

On a ledge

Marking time

Italy Again

Capri and Sicily

On the move

A sense of finality

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