The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence

The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence contains fourteen chapters by leading international scholars. They offer a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most important and controversial writers of the twentieth century. These specially-commissioned essays offer diverse and stimulating readings of Lawrence's major novels, short stories, poetry and plays, and place Lawrence's writing in a variety of literary, cultural, and political contexts, such as modernism, sexual and ethnic identity, and psychoanalysis. The concluding chapter addresses the vexed history of Lawrence's critical reception throughout the twentieth century. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

ISBN	052162617X	Pages	316
ISBN13	9780521626170 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Cambridge University Press	Weight (grammes)	470
Imprint	Cambridge University Press	Published in	Cambridge
Format	Paperback	Series title	Cambridge Companions to Literature
Publication date	11 Jun 2001	Height (mm)	228
Library of Congress	PR6023.A93 Z595 2001	Width (mm)	152
DEWEY	823.912	Spine width (mm)	18
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Chronology
	List of abbreviations
	Introduction by Anne Fernihough	1
Pt. I	Texts
1	Ideas, histories, generations and beliefs: the early novels to Sons and Lovers by Rick Rylance	15
2	Narrating sexuality: The Rainbow by Marianna Torgovnick	33
3	Sex and the nation: 'The Prussian Officer' and Women in Love by Hugh Stevens	49
4	Decolonising imagination: Lawrence in the 1920s by Mark Kinkead-Weekes	67
5	Work and selfhood in Lady Chatterley's Lover by Morag Shiach	87
6	Lawrence's tales by Con Coroneos and Trudi Tate	103
7	Lawrence's poetry by Helen Sword	119
8	Lawrence as dramatist by John Worthen	137
Pt. II	Contexts and Critical Issues
9	The biographical issue: lives of Lawrence by Paul Eggert	157
10	Lawrence and modernism by Michael Bell	179
11	Lawrence and the politics of sexual politics by Drew Milne	197
12	Lawrence and psychoanalysis by Fiona Becket	217
13	Apocalypse now (and then), Or, D. H. Lawrence and the swan in the electron by Sandra M. Gilbert	235
14	Post-mortem: Lawrence's critical and cultural legacy by Chris Baldick	253
	Guide to further reading by Paul Poplawski	271
	Index	285

'The excellent Companion certainly testifies to Lawrence's multifariousness, managing to do justice to a substantial amount of his achievement; to survey his critical legacy; and to add valuable new approaches to it.' Times Literary Supplement '... particularly good on lesser-known aspects of his work such as the plays and poems.' English Studies

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