Movements in European History

An edition of the only school textbook Lawrence ever wrote.

D. H. Lawrence (Author), Philip Crumpton (Edited by)

9780521007030, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 April 2002

400 pages, 15 maps
21.7 x 14.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.555 kg

Movements in European History was written by D. H. Lawrence during 1918 and 1919 in response to Oxford University Press's invitation to prepare a textbook for schools. It is a vivid sketch of European history from ancient Rome to the early twentieth century, remaining significant in the canon of Lawrence's work as the only school textbook he ever wrote. Crumpton's introduction describes the genesis, publication and reception of the book, gives an account of the little-known Irish edition of 1926 which suffered much censorship, and identifies and analyses Lawrence's methods of using the source-books on which his writing was based. This edition uses the surviving manuscript to present a text as close to that which Lawrence wrote and corrected in proof as is now possible.

General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Cue-titles
Introduction
Movements in European History
Maps
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
Appendixes
A note on pounds, shilling and pence
Index.

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