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.

• Recently commissioned essays • Support material includes a chronology and a comprehensive and up to date guide to further reading • Detailed chapter on Lawrence’s critical reception through the twentieth century

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

‘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