Paul Eggert's book meshes biographical scholarship and editorial theory with literary-critical analysis to offer a fresh understanding and appreciation of how D. H. Lawrence wrote. By concentrating on the material surfaces and biographical moments of Lawrence's textual performances as he wrote and revised, Eggert reveals a continuous intellectual-imaginative project across his novels, stories, plays and poems. Gone is the old Lawrence-as-moralist of the sacred body and interfering mind in favour of a new Lawrence as a profoundly Modernist performer engaged in writing-acts of self-revealing discovery, characterised by projective force and ceaseless experiment. The interwoven and intersecting versions of his many writings are explored at revealing moments in his writing career. New, compelling accounts of his most important novels, poetry and travel books become possible. Students of creative writing and Modernist literature, and all readers of Lawrence's works, will benefit from this ambitious and original book.
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Meshes biographical scholarship and editorial theory with literary-critical analysis to understand afresh how D. H. Lawrence wrote.
1. Lawrence as text-gambler: writing as performance;
2. Sons and lovers,
19111913;
3. 'Foreword' to sons and lovers and the Prussian officer stories,
19131914;
4. Study of Thomas hardy' and the rainbow, 19141915;
5. Twilight
in Italy and 'the crown', JulyOctober 1915;
6. The two versions of women in
love, 1916 and 19171919;
7. Staged encounters in 19201921: the prose, the
poetry and the ladybird;
8. Taking 'the imaginative line' in Etruscan places
and lady Chatterley's lover: October 1926 February 1928; Notes; Chronology;
Bibliography; Index.
Paul Eggert FAHA is an editorial theorist and literary critic. His writings include The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies (2019), Biography of a Book (2013) and Securing the Past (2009). He edited The Boy in the Bush (1990) and Twilight in Italy (1994) for the Cambridge Lawrence Works.
