Reading D.H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene / edited by Terry Gifford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gifford, Terry, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Environmentalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"How do the works of D. H. Lawrence speak to readers in the age of the Anthropocene? In this volume, sixteen scholars from six countries explore different answers to this question, considering Lawrence’s novels, short fiction, poetry, paintings and his often-provocative polemical essays. This comprehensive survey of Lawrence’s writings and artworks reveals that his familiar enquiries into human nature were always situated within the energies, large and local, of what he calls ‘the cosmos’ which is our shared home. Lawrence challenges his readers by his movements between cynicism and idealism, dissolution and creativity, critique and regeneration – the very tensions that confront us today in the face of industrial capitalism and environmental deterioration. This revelation of Lawrence’s passionate ‘environmentalism’ not only fills what has been described as ‘a gaping hole in Lawrence studies’. It also drills down into the heart of the problems holding back an adequate response to the climate crisis by offering fundamental values for recovery"-- De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Introduction : Reading strategies for the Anthropocene / Terry Gifford

Rehabilitating Lawrence for the Anthropocene / Fiona Becket

Lawrence’s environmentalism : From ‘pastoral’ to Anthropocene rebirth / Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy

Against Rome and modernity : ‘naturalness verging on the commonplace’ in Sketches of Etruscan Places / Neil Roberts

‘Its own weird anima’ : Lawrence ‘unpaints’ the human / Carrie Rohman

Lawrence’s embodied guide to navigating the Anthropocene in Women in Love / Marie Bertrand

Relationality in Lawrence’s non-fiction / Tim Gupwell

Anthropocene aesthetics in Lawrence’s later fiction / Harry Acton

Carrying the other in D. H. Lawrence’s ‘The Man Who Loved Islands’ and Last Poems / Maria Trejling

Lawrence and proto-veganism / Catherine Brown

Forests in Lawrence and Philippe Descola / Fiona Fleming

Lawrence and scale / Patrick Armstrong

Lawrence’s vegetal poetics and the Anthropocene / Chao Xie

Complicity and critique / Jeff Wallace

Nature, transformation and the Frankfurt School in Lawrence’s late fiction / Howard J. Booth

Beginning at the end : Lawrence’s Apocalypse as eco-revelation / Adrian Tait.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed October 29, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Reading D.H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene

ISBN:

9781399535960

139953596X

9781399535953

1399535951

OCLC:

1530776973

Publisher Number:

CIPO000258393

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license