Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays

This critical edition brings together all D. H. Lawrence's writings about Mexican and Southwestern Indians in the one volume.

D. H. Lawrence (Author), Virginia Crosswhite Hyde (Edited by)

9780521652926, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 June 2009

454 pages
22.3 x 14.6 x 3 cm, 0.68 kg

'Crosswhite Hyde's edition can be unhesitatingly recommended to all libraries and scholars of twentieth-century literature.' English Studies

This book is a critical edition of D. H. Lawrence's complete essays about Mexican and Southwestern Indians, both those published in 1927 as Mornings in Mexico, and the other essays Lawrence wrote about them during his American years. The number of essays, therefore, is more than double that of all previous editions. The early version of 'Pan in America' appears here for the first time, as do previously unpublished passages in other essays. The texts are informed by all extant manuscripts, typescripts, and early publications, with a full textual apparatus revealing Lawrence's revisions. The volume includes extensive notes and appendices with information on Mesoamerican mythology and history. Lawrence's interest in and real affection for the region and its peoples went beyond the travel writing genre and these essays hold significance not only for those interested in Lawrence but also in the wider context of the cultures of Mexico and the Southwest.

Chronology
Introduction
Note on the texts
Mornings in Mexico: Corasmin and the parrots
Walk to Huayapa
The Mozo
Market day
Indians and entertainment
The dance of the sprouting corn
The Hopi snake dance
A little moonshine with lemon
Other Essays, 1922–8: Certain Americans and an Englishman
Indians and an Englishman
Taos
Au Revoir, USA
Dear old horse, a London letter
Paris letter
Letter from Germany
Pan in America
See Mexico after, by Luis Q.
New Mexico
Appendix I. 'Just back from the snake dance'
Appendix II. ['Indians and an Englishman' and 'Certain Americans and an Englishman']: early fragment in Luhan
Appendix III. 'Pan in America': early version
Appendix IV. ['See Mexico After, by Luis Q.'] (Early fragments)
Appendix V. Mesoamerican and Southwestern American myth
Appendix VI. History timelines
Appendix VII. Maps
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
Glossary
Line-end hyphenation.

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