D.H. Lawrence and survival : Darwinism in the fiction of the transitional period / Ronald Granofsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Granofsky, Ronald, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anxiety in literature.

Evolution (Biology) in literature.

Fiction--Authorship--Psychological aspects.

Fiction.

Misogyny in literature.

Survival in literature.

Women in literature.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Influence.

Darwin, Charles.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Physical Description:

xii, 212 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Granofsky shows that Lawrence's deliberate use of Darwinian elements in his narrative strategy occurred at a time when he was increasingly concerned about survival, both personally, due to illness, and as an artist. The result in his fiction is a subtext in which his anxieties are projected onto female characters and the evolution of his writing is frustrated by unresolved emotional conflicts. Through new readings of the major fiction of Lawrence's transitional period, Granofsky demonstrates that Lawrence's deterioration as a writer and the misogyny of his later work was primarily the result of a deliberate effort on his part to move the ideological yardsticks of his fiction.

Contents:

Lawrence and Darwin

Food and illness : survival in the Ladybird novellas

Confinement and survival in The lost girl and Aaron's rod

Death and survival in the stories of England, my England

Conclusion : the writer as gamekeeper.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86117-4

9786612861178

0-7735-7107-8

OCLC:

929120865