The critical response to D.H. Lawrence / edited by Jan Pilditch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pilditch, Jan.

Series:

Critical responses in arts and letters 1057-0993 ; no. 38.

Critical responses in arts and letters, 1057-0993 ; no. 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930--Criticism and interpretation.

Lawrence, D. H.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 402 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.

Summary:

Collects reviews and essays to trace the reception of Lawrence's works over time.

Contents:

I The White Peacock

Anonymous Review of The White Peacock 1

"Thomas Hardy and Lawrence's The White Peacock" / Raney Stanford 1

"Lawrence's The White Peacock: A Mutation of the Pastoral" / Michael Squires 10

II Sons and Lovers

Lascelles Abercrombie, Review 27

"Technique as Discovery" / Mark Schorer 28

"A Study of D.H. Lawrence's Social Origins" / Colin Holmes 41

"Gender and Language in Sons and Lovers" / Earl Ingersoll 52

III The Rainbow

"The Rainbow: The Shaping of Modern Man" / Seymour Lainoff 61

"Escape from the Circles of Experience: D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow as a Modern Bildungsroman" / Edward Engelberg 66

"Lawrence's Lamias: Predatory Women in The Rainbow and Women in Love" / James Twitchell 82

IV Women in Love

"Notes on Novels" / Rebecca West 101

"Dr Leavis on D.H. Lawrence" / John Middleton Murry 104

"Primitivism in Women in Love" / Jack F. Stewart 109

V The Plumed Serpent

"Rekindling the 'Father-Spark': Lawrence's Ideal of Leadership in The Lost Girl and The Plumed Serpent" / Judith Ruderman 125

"The Imagery of The Plumed Serpent: The Going-Under of Organicism" / John Humma 140

"Struggling with the Master: The Position of Kate and the Reader in Lawrence's 'Quetzalcoatl' and The Plumed Serpent" / Kimberley VanHoosier-Carey 153

VI Lady Chatterley's Lover

"The Censor" / Aldous Huxley 167

"Lawrence's Quarrel with Tenderness" / Mark Spilka 170

"D.H. Lawrence and the Female Body" / David Ellis 184

VII Plays

"Introduction" to A Collier's Friday Night / Edward Garnett 195

"A Modern Isaiah" / Edward Sackville West 196

"Stage Sons, Stage Lovers" / Alan Rudrum 200

"Strindberg in the Midlands" / Ronald Bryden 201

"D.H. Lawrence's Biblical Play David" / George A. Panichas 202

"D.H. Lawrence: "The Merry-Go-Round: A Challenge to the Theatre" / Cecil Davies 213

VIII The Short Fiction

"'The Prussian Officer' and Other Stories" / George Orwell 227

"Myth and Ritual in the Shorter Fiction of D.H. Lawrence" / John B. Vickery 230

"The Defeat of Feminism: D.H. Lawrence's The Fox and 'The Woman Who Rode Away'" / R.P. Draper 244

"D.H. Lawrence's 'The Princess' as Ironic Romance" / James C. Cowan 254

"D.H. Lawrence's Greatest Collection of Short Stories

What Holds It Together" / Leo Gurko 259

"D.H. Lawrence's Early Masterpiece of Short Fiction: 'Odour of Chrysanthemums'" / Volker Schulz 266

"Parallel Inward Journeys: A Passage to India and St. Mawr" / Harbour Winn 272

IX Poetry

"Mr D.H. Lawrence's Work" [Amores: Poems] / A. Williams-Ellis 275

"Peace and Passivity: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence" / William J. Fisher 277

"Open Shelf and Open Poem: The Stages of D.H. Lawrence's Poetic Quest" / Keith Sagar 286

"D.H. Lawrence's 'Future Religion': The Unity of Last Poems" / Del Ivan Janik 297

X The Letters and Prose

"The American Spirit" / John Macy 311

"D.H. Lawrence in His Letters" / Catherine Carswell 313

"From Surrealism to 'The Apocalypse': A Development in Twentieth Century Irrationalism" / Frederick J. Hoffman 321

"Some New Volumes of Lawrence's Letters" / Harry T. Moore 327

"The Beginning and the End: D.H. Lawrence's Psychoanalysis and Fantasia" / Evelyn J. Hinz 335

"The Critical Philosophy of D.H. Lawrence" / Peter Bien 346

"'Terra Incognita': Lawrence's Travel Writings" / Mara Kalnins 353.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-394) and index.

ISBN:

0313308535

OCLC:

46952151