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Zusatztext Manuscript-based criticism of D. H. Lawrence’s fiction has hitherto been heavily influenced by biography and affected by organicist and constructivist notions of authorship which see a text as steadily improving through its different drafts. The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence offers a refreshing challenge to this orthodoxy. Elliott Morsia argues that we should dispense with teleological models of authorship and instead see Lawrence’s writing practice as essentially dialogical, with each new iteration of a text entering into a dialogue with earlier ones rather than displacing them. He presents a new image of Lawrence as a thoroughly self-reflexive writer who was preoccupied with fluidity and stasis, process and finality, at both thematic and formal levels. Informationen zum Autor Elliott Morsia is an Independent Scholar and former Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.Draws on insights from genetic criticism to explore the writing processes of D.H. Lawrence through detailed study of draft, revised and published manuscripts of key works including Women in Love . Zusammenfassung Winner of the DHLSNA Biennial Award for a Book by a Newly Published Scholar Exploring draft manuscripts, alternative texts and publishers’ typescripts, The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence reveals new insights into the writings and writing practices of one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Focusing on the most productive years of Lawrence’s writing life, between 1909 and 1926 – a time that saw the writing of major novels such as Women in Love and the controversial The Plumed Serpent, as well as his first major short story collection – this book is the first to apply analytical methods from the field of genetic criticism to the archives of this canonical modernist author.The book unearths and re-evaluates a variety of themes including the body, death, love, trauma, depression, memory, the sublime, selfhood, and endings, and includes original transcriptions as well as reproductions from the manuscripts themselves. By charting Lawrence’s writing processes, the book also highlights how the very distinction between ‘process’ and ‘product’ became a central theme in his work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor Preface List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations and Note on the Text Introduction Part One: Critical Frameworks Chapter One: Anglo-American Traditions, Genetic Criticism, and Recent Developments Part Two: ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’ (1909-1914) Chapter Two: Setting the Scene Part Three: Women in Love (1913-1921) Chapter Three: Re-Evaluating the Compositional HistoryChapter Four: Early Fragments and Multiple DraftsChapter Five: Genetic Dialogism in the NotebooksChapter Six: Genetic Dialogism in the Typescripts Part Four: The Plumed Serpent (1923-1926) Chapter Seven: Criticism, Composition, and Writing DepressionChapter Eight: Writing an EndingConclusionEpilogue Bibliography Index ...
