D. H. Lawrence: New Studies

197 Pages·1987·18.589 MB·English

by  Christopher Heywood (eds.)

MACMILLAN STUDIES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE
Michael Black
D. H. LAWRENCE: THE EARLY FICTION
Carolyn Bliss
PATRICK WHITE'S FICTION
Laurie Clancy
THE NOVELS OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Peter J. Conradi
IRIS MURDOCH: THE SAINT AND THE ARTIST
Clare Hanson
SHORT STORIES AND SHORT FICTIONS, 1880-1980
Christopher Heywood (editor)
D. H. LAWRENCE: NEW STUDIES
Dominic Hibberd
OWEN THE POET
David Leon Higdon
SHADOWS OF THE PAST IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH FICTION
Oddvar Holmesland
A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO HENRY GREEN'S NOVELS
Holger Klein with John Flower and Eric Hornberger (editors)
THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN FICTION
Simon Loveday
THE ROMANCES OF JOHN FOWLES
Harold Orel
THE LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT OF REBECCA WEST
Tony Pinkney
WOMEN IN THE POETRY OF T. S. ELIOT
Alan Sandison
GEORGE ORWELL: AFTER 1984
Lars Ole Sauerberg
SECRET AGENTS IN FICTION
Linda M. Shires
BRITISH POETRY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Patrick Swinden
THE ENGLISH NOVEL OF HISTORY AND SOCIETY, 1940-80
Eric Warner (editor)
VIRGINIA WOOLF: A CENTENARY PERSPECTIVE
Terry Whalen
PHILIP LARKIN AND ENGLISH POETRY
Anne Wright
LITERATURE OF CRISIS, 1910-22
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D. H. Lawrence
New Studies
Edited by
Christopher Heywood
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1987; Chapter 7 © Roger Ebbatson 1987; Chapter 9 © Henry Schvey 1987; Chapter 10 ©
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D. H. Lawrence: new studies. - (Macmillan
studies in 2Oth-century literature
1. Lawrence, D. H. - Criticism and
interpretation
I. Heywood, Christopher
823' .912 PR6023.A93ZI
ISBN 978-1-349-18697-6 ISBN 978-1-349-18695-2 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-18695-2
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements vii
List of Abbrevifl1ions ix
Notes on the Contributors Xl
Lawrence's Social Origins
Colin Holmes
2 The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence 16
R. P. Draper
3 Lawrence's Tragic Lovers: The Story and the Tale in Women
in Love 34
Neil Roberts
4 Women in Love, Class War and School Inspectors 46
Ian MacKillop
5 Lawrence's Political Thought: Some English Contexts,
1906-19 59
Michael Bentley
6 The Sydney Bulletin, Moby Dick and the Allusiveness of
Kangaroo 84
Andrew Peek
7 A Spark beneath the Wheel: Lawrence and Evolutionary
Thought 90
Roger Ebbatson
8 'Blood-Consciousness' and the Pioneers of the Reflex and
Ganglionic Systems 104
Christopher Heywood
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9 Lawrence and Expressionism 124
Henry Schvey
10 Lawrence, Otto Weininger and 'Rather Raw Philosophy' 137
Emile Delavenay
II Reverberations: 'Snapdragon' 158
Annemarie Heywood
Index 182
Preface and
Acknowledgements
Most of these essays began as contributions to a lecture series
commemorating the half-century of D. H. Lawrence's death. The series
was arranged and delivered in Sheffield in the Division of Continuing
Education of Sheffield University during 1979/80. Another com
memoration, the cenknary of his birth in 1885, has intervened, but still
the need persists from the time of the lecture series to relate Lawrence's
writings to some of the specific problems, events, linesofargument, and
themes, of his age. His novels, poems, essays, letters and travels were an
expression of a society as much as of an individual artist's impulses and
impressions. Many details of the movements leading to the formation of
his works have been lost, but many can still be retrieved by research and
inquiry. The essays pursue their writers' discoveries, insights and
preoccupations, without addressing themselves to any prescribed limit
or plan.
The essays printed here make no attempt to cover all the works, and
they do not present a coherent view. At times they present conflicting, or
complementary, views of the same text or set of problems. No effort is
made here to reconcile discordant views. They register, rather, the
tensions inherent in the works themselves. The tendency of7he Rainbow
and Women in Love to dominate the discussion reflects the key position
of the novels which began as 'The Sisters' in the unfolding of Lawrence's
art and ideas. These essays trace some of the landmarks in the rise and
fall of a great creative achievement.
Thanks are due to the contributors for their patience in awaiting the
results of arrangement and editing, which took longer than had been
expected. Occasional notes in the text point to the writers having altered or
developed the views given in the original series. The Division of
Continuing Education at Sheffield University and the Department of
English Literature at Sheffield University are thanked for arrangements
leading to the presentation and collecting of these essays. The essay by
Professor Delavenay replaces the paper orginally given in the series. The
essay by Henry Schvey was first given at the 1980 International
Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association at the
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Vlll Preface and Acknowledgements
University of Kent at Canterbury. The organisers are thanked for the
arrangements leading to the presentation of this paper. A special note of
thanks goes to Julia Steward and Valery Rose, for their long-suffering
patience, good humour, and skilled assistance, during the editorial
work.
All quotations from the various works by D. H. Lawrence are published
by permission of Laurence Pollinger Ltd, on behalf of the Estate of the
late Frieda Lawrence Ravagli, who are warmly thanked for advice,
assistance and co-operation. The following collections are thanked for
having consented to the publication of the works by Oskar Kokoschka
appearing in the essay by Henry Schvey: Offentliche Kunstsammlung,
Kunstmuseum Basel (for Die Windsbraut, 1914); the Museum of Modern
Art, New York (for Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat, 1909). The
following are thanked for permission to reproduce graphic material
included in the essay by Annemarie Heywood: Frobenius-Institut,
Frankfurt-am-Main (Figure 6, from Leo Frobenius, Kulturgeschichte
Afrikas); Newnes Books and Photographie Giraudon, Paris (Figure 7,
from Geoffrey Parrinder, African Mythology); Souvenir Press (Figures 5
and 8, from Joseph O. Campbell, The Masks of God, III; Occidental
Mythology); Thames and Hudson (Figures 4, 9 and 10, from Stanislas
Klossewski de Rola, The Secret Art of Alchemy). The editors of the
following journals are thanked for permission to reprint essays first
published by them: Etudes A nglaises , for the essay by Christopher
Heywood; Literature and History, for the essay by Colin Holmes; Notes
and Queries, and the D. H. Lawrence Society and the D. H. Lawrence
Journal, for the essay by Andrew Peek.
Every effort has been made to trace all the copyright-holders, but if
any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased
to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.
List of Abbreviations
The following abbreviations are used throughout in references to
commonly cited works by or about Lawrence, and identify the editions
specified below. Wherever possible, references to these works are given
in the text.
AR Aaron's Rod (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950).
CL D. H. Lawrence: Collected Letters, ed. Harry T. Moore, 2
vols (London: Heinemann, 1962).
CP The Complete Poems ofD . H. Lawrence, ed. V. de S. Pinto
and W. Roberts (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977).
ET Jessie Chambers, D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record by
E. T. (London: Frank Cass, 1965).
F Fantasia of the Unconscious/Psychoanalysis and the
Unconscious (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971).
Hardy Lawrence on Hardy and Painting, ed. H. W. Davies
(London: Heinemann, 1973).
K Kangaroo (Harmond'iworth: Penguin, 1950).
KL The Quest for Rananim: D. H. Lawrence's Letters to S. S.
Kotelianski, ed. George J. Zytaruk (Montreal and
London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1970).
LCL Lady Chatterley's Lover (Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1960).
Letters I The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. James T. Boulton, vol.
I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
Letters /I The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. George J. Zytaruk and
James T. Boulton, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1981).
Nehls D. H. Lawrence: A Composite Biography, ed. Edward
Nehls, 3 vols (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1957-9).
Ph Phoenix (London: Heinemann, 1936).
PhIl Phoenix II, ed. W. Roberts and Harry T. Moore (London:
Heinemann, 1962).
PhS D. H. Lawrence: A Selection from 'Phoenix', ed. A. A. H.
Inglis (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971).
R The Rainbow (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966).
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