The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence

This Companion offers a series of alternative perspectives on the writer D. H. Lawrence.

Anne Fernihough (Edited by)

9780521626170, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 June 2001

316 pages
22.7 x 15.4 x 2.1 cm, 0.5 kg

'… particularly good on lesser-known aspects of his work such as the plays and poems.' English Studies

The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence contains fourteen chapters by leading international scholars. They offer a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most important and controversial writers of the twentieth century. These specially-commissioned essays offer diverse and stimulating readings of Lawrence's major novels, short stories, poetry and plays, and place Lawrence's writing in a variety of literary, cultural, and political contexts, such as modernism, sexual and ethnic identity, and psychoanalysis. The concluding chapter addresses the vexed history of Lawrence's critical reception throughout the twentieth century. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Chronology
List of abbreviations
Introduction Anne Fernihough
Part I. Texts: 1. Ideas, histories, generations and beliefs: the early novels to Sons and Lovers Rick Rylance
2. Narrating sexuality: The Rainbow Marianna Torgovnick
3. Sex and the nation: 'The Prussian Officer' and Women in Love Hugh Stevens
4. Decolonising imagination: Lawrence in the 1920s Mark Kinkead-Weekes
5. Work and selfhood in Lady Chatterley's Lover Morag Shiach
6. Lawrence's tales Con Coroneos and Trudi Tate
7. Lawrence's poetry Helen Sword
8. Lawrence as dramatist John Worthen
Part II. Contexts and Critical Issues: 9. The biographical issue: lives of Lawrence Paul Eggert
10. Lawrence and modernism Michael Bell
11. Lawrence and the politics of sexual politics Drew Milne
12. Lawrence and psychoanalysis Fiona Becket
13. Apocalypse now (and then). Or, D. H. Lawrence and the swan in the electron Sandra M. Gilbert
14. Post-mortem: Lawrence's critical and cultural legacy Chris Baldick
Guide to further reading Paul Poplawski
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Literary theory [DSA]