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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)D. H. Lawrence's background, which was an important influence on his work, is best described in his own essay ``Nottingham and the Mining Countryside.'' Life in late 19th-century Eastwood, he says, ``was a curious cross...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn D. H. Lawrence's four prayer-poems, "Prayer," "Maiden's Prayer," "Modern Prayer," and "Lord's Prayer," the poetic "I" works in mysterious ways. Lawrence's ambiguous and fiery relation to Christianity has been the...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )Although Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel that first comes to mind when Lawrence is mentioned, it is by no means as central to his body of work as might be thought. Throughout his life and his work he had difficulty...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)D.H. Lawrence's quest within The Rainbow for values and for the appropriate form is as important to the experience of reading the novel as his polemic. Lawrence wanted to write about the passions of men and women in a...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Women in Love is generally considered to be D.H. Lawrence's masterpiece. It is an apocalyptic work that embodies the spirit of a civilization in decline. It covers a wider canvas than his earlier works, reflecting the...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe aim of this essay is to discuss D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, (1920) in a European Modemist context, touching on the early twentieth century European avant-garde, including Post-Impressionism, Expressionism,...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made" --William Shakespeare, Sonnet 54 Despite a keen interest in psychoanalysis, there is no evidence that D.H. Lawrence read Sigmund Freud (FU xxviii). In fact, despite...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Hard Times (1854), Charles Dickens memorably described Gradgrind's school as "a grim mechanical substitute for ... tender young imaginations" (2). The depiction of formal education as a process of industrialising,...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNear the beginning of The Rainbow, Lawrence describes how the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the Erewash Valley of the East Midlands disrupted age-old expectations and patterns of stability. More specifically,...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn The Rainbow, Lawrence presents an agrarian familial alternative to industrialism, and demonstrates pastoral tensions with modernization. (1) In this respect, The Rainbow resonates with Michael Squires's The Pastoral...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn 1962 the literary scholar George Ford (1914-1994), then a professor of English at the University of Rochester, was at the University of Texas at Austin researching what would become his study of Lawrence, Double...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction This paper will study the enactment of feeling in selected love scenes in The Rainbow. Lawrence critics have long been aware that the rhythmic quality of Lawrence's prose captures mimetically the rhythm...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLawrence's later critical writings are notably concerned with art's potential to evoke a direct relation to the nonhuman world, and thus themselves deserve close attention in the growing debate on the ecological...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBy the end of the First World War, the state and status of the country house were equivocal, at best. Richard A. Kaye puts the point strongly: "The country refuge that had served as a living, undestroyed symbol of a...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Inertia" became a key term for D.H. Lawrence's understanding of energy and materiality, leading him to a unique environmental aesthetics that stresses the body's constant engagement with its surroundings. His...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA reader of The Rainbow (1915) and Zola's Germinal, published in 1885 the year of Lawrence's birth, can hardly fail to be struck by parallels. Apart from coal-mining themes, both novels build toward visions of...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAmong its other distinguishing qualities, D. H. Lawrence's The Fox is remarkable for the range and intensity of the critical conflicts it has generated over the three generations since its publication (1922), and for...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI When Rupert Birkin first appears in Women in Love (1920), he is presented as being "like a man on a tightrope" (WL 20)--an incongruous image for the best man at a society wedding that seems comically hyperbolic....
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI Sometime during the summer of 1929, a desperately ill D. H. Lawrence jotted down a short poem in the first of the two notebooks posthumously published by Richard Aldington and Guiseppe Orioli as Last Poems (1932):...
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 100, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"But even [Ursula's] memories were the work of her imagination." (1) The dichotomy between passive inertia and active yearning defines the rhythm of life as Lawrence depicts it in The Rainbow. He opens his saga by...