Modernists at Odds: Reconsidering Joyce and Lawrence

267 Pages·2015·1.419 MB·English

by  Matthew J. Kochis, Heather L. Lusty

Modernists at Odds
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MODERNISTS AT ODDS
Reconsidering Joyce and Lawrence
Edited by Matthew J. Kochis and Heather L. Lusty
Foreword by Sebastian D. G. Knowles
University Press of Florida
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Copyright 2015 by Matthew J. Kochis and Heather L. Lusty
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Modernists at odds : reconsidering Joyce and Lawrence / edited by Matthew J. Kochis
and Heather L. Lusty ; foreword by Sebastian D. G. Knowles.
pages cm — (The Florida James Joyce series)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-8130-6047-7
1. English fiction—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Joyce, James, 1882–1941—
Criticism and interpretation. 3. Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885–1930—Criticism
and interpretation. 4. Modernism (Literature)—Great Britain. I. Kochis, Matthew J.,
editor. II. Lusty, Heather L., editor. III. Knowles, Sebastian D. G. (Sebastian David Guy),
Author of introduction, etc. IV. Series: Florida James Joyce series.
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Chronologies xvii
Introduction: Injoynted Perspectives 1
Heather L. Lusty
1. Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Ulysses 11
Zack Bowen
2. Love, Bodies, and Nature in Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Ulysses 28
Margot Norris
3. The “Odd Couple” Constructing the “New Man”: Bloom and Mellors
in Ulysses and Lady Chatterley’s Lover 39
Earl G. Ingersoll
4. The End of Sacrifice: Joyce’s “The Dead” and Lawrence’s “The Man
Who Died” 61
Gerald Doherty
5. The Isis Effect: How Joyce and Lawrence Revitalize Christianity
through Foreignization 80
Martin Brick
6. “In Europe They Usually Mention Us Together”: Joyce, Lawrence,
and the Little Magazines 99
Louise Kane
7. Lawrence and Joyce in T. S. Eliot’s Criterion Miscellany Series 131
Eleni Loukopoulou
8. An Encounter with the Real: A Lacanian Motif in Joyce’s
“The Dead” and Lawrence’s “The Shadow in the Rose Garden” 161
Hidenaga Arai
9. Masochism and Marriage in The Rainbow and Ulysses 175
Johannes Hendrikus Burgers and Jennifer Mitchell
10. That Long Kiss: Comparing Joyce and Lawrence 196
Enda Duffy
11. “Result of the Rockinghorse Races”: The Ironic Culture of Racing
in Joyce’s Ulysses and Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” 210
Carl F. Miller
List of Contributors 229
Index 233
Figures
7.1. D. H. Lawrence’s Pornography and Obscenity, Criterion
Miscellany No. 5, 1929 141
7.2. Contents page, October 1929 issue of Criterion 144
7.3. Front cover of James Joyce’s Anna Livia Plurabelle, first
edition, 1930 152

Foreword
According to Stephen Dedalus, the fundamental flaw in the hockey game that
takes place after his history lesson is that “Cochrane and Halliday are on the
same side.” So it is with Joyce and Lawrence: in order for the great game of
modernism to be played at its highest level, the two players must line up on op-
posite sides. According to T. S. Eliot, in his heretical book After Strange Gods,
Lawrence is the heretic, and Joyce the orthodox writer, an unorthodox argu-
ment that Stephen Spender later overturned. But which is which? Would it
not be fairer to say that Joyce is the more heretical writer, fledged on Ibsen’s
celebration of individual choice, while Lawrence remained true to the circum-
scribed world of the subject of his early literary study, Thomas Hardy? The
answer provided in this excellent reappraisal is that they can be both, but not
at the same time. They are contraries, in the Blakean sense: two elements in
continual opposition. As Blake says in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, “Op-
position is true Friendship”; Joyce and Lawrence are eternally at odds, each
a Scylla to the other’s Charybdis. Modernism’s original odd couple, as Earl
Ingersoll calls them in this volume, they shared the same literary agent (James
Pinker, whose death in 1922 was possibly the most significant literary event of
that year, given a clientele that included Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, G. B.
Shaw, and Thomas Mann), fought similar legal battles against the censor, and
had the common distinction of being pirated by Samuel Roth. Louise Kane
shows us how their work rubs together in the pages of the Egoist, tracking their
movements through the literary magazines of the time. Brancusi’s Symbol of
Joyce, the rock and the whirlpool, is as much a symbol of Lawrence as it is a
symbol of both.
In The Good Soldier, John Dowell famously likens Leonora and Florence
to a greyhound and a retriever: that’s as good an analogy as any for Joyce and
Lawrence, both in life and art. They belong to the same great group: both are
at once syncretists and fragmenters, bourgeois cosmopolitans, prudish liber-