D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles

This volume contains essays and articles written by D. H. Lawrence between 1926 and 1930, including previously unpublished work.

D. H. Lawrence (Author), James T. Boulton (Edited by)

9781107461833, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 June 2014

466 pages
21.5 x 13.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.58 kg

"To read these wonderful essays, and the many other pieces in this volume, is to reacquaint onself with the lyrical and visionary brilliance of Lawrence's art--even when the passion and insight are compressed into the limiting format of a newspaper article." English Literature in Transition, Peter Balbert, Trinity University

In his last years D. H. Lawrence often wrote for newspapers; he needed the money, and clearly enjoyed the work. He also wrote several substantial essays during the same period. This meticulously-edited collection brings together major essays such as Pornography and Obscenity and Lawrence's spirited Introduction to the volume of his Paintings; a group of autobiographical pieces, two of which are published here for the first time; and the articles Lawrence wrote at the invitation of newspaper and magazine editors. There are thirty-nine items in total, thirty-five of them deriving from original manuscripts; all were written between 1926 and Lawrence's death in March 1930. They are ordered chronologically according to the date of composition; each is preceded by an account of the circumstances in which it came to be published. The volume is introduced by a substantial survey of Lawrence's career as a writer responding directly to public interests and concerns.

General editor's preface
Prefatory note
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Cue-titles
Introduction
Late essays and articles: Note on the texts
Mercury
[Return to Bestwood]
Getting on
Which class I belong to
Newthorpe in 2927
The 'Jeune Fille' wants to know
Laura Philippine
That women know best
All there
Thinking about oneself
Insouciance
Master in his own house
Matriarchy
Ownership
Autobiography
Women are so cocksure
Why I don't like living in London
Cocksure women and hen-sure men
Hymns in a man's life
Red trousers
Is England still a man's country?
Sex appeal
Do women change
Enslaved by civilisation
Give her a pattern
Introduction to pictures
Myself revealed
Introduction to these paintings
The state of funk
Making pictures
Pornography and obscenity
Pictures on the wall
The risen lord
Men must work and women as well
Nottingham and the mining countryside
We need one another
The real thing
Nobody loves me
Appendix 1. Early draft of 'The 'Jeune Fille' Wants to Know'
Appendix 2. Vanity Fair version of 'Do Women Change'
Appendix 3. 'Mushrooms': an autobiographical fragment
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
A note on pounds, shillings and pence.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]