The White Peacock

The Cambridge edition of The White Peacock faithfully recovers Lawrence's words and punctuation.

D. H. Lawrence (Author), Andrew Robertson (Edited by)

9780521294270, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 March 1987

508 pages, 1 map
21.6 x 13.8 x 3.4 cm, 0.698 kg

Lawrence's first novel The White Peacock was begun in 1906, rewritten three times, and published in 1911. The Cambridge edition uses the final manuscript as base-text, and faithfully recovers Lawrence's words and punctuation from the layers of publishers' house-styling and their errors; original passages, changed for censorship reasons, are reinstated. Andrew Robertson's introduction sets out the history of Lawrence's writing and revision, and the generally favourable reception by friends and reviewers. Lawrence incorporated much of his own experience and reading on to the novel which is set just north-east of Eastwood, and modelled characters on his friends and family. The notes identify real-life places and people, explain dialect forms, literary allusions, and historical references, and include sensitive passages deleted before publication. The textual apparatus records all the variant readings and the appendix prints the two surviving fragments from the earliest manuscripts of the novel, then entitled 'Laetitia'.

General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Cue-titles
Map
Introduction
The White Peacock
Appendix
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
A note on pounds, shillings and pence.

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