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The Horrible Paws: D.H. Lawrence's Australian Nightmare

English · Paperback / Softback

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In Australia in 1922, novelist DH Lawrence had a number of nightmares that were to haunt his novel, Kangaroo, which he started writing in the coastal village of Thirroul in May, and completed in Taos in America four months later. The most famous one provided a chapter ("The Nightmare") in his Australian novel, touched off by a scarifying encounter with the leader of the secret army Lawrence ran across in Sydney. "It was as if the silvery freedom suddenly turned, and showed the scaly back of a reptile, and the horrible paws", he wrote. Those blood-caked paws were not only the metaphorical extremities of the sinister organisation he had stumbled on in Australia, but the unwelcome attentions of its "bear-like" secret army leader, portrayed in the novel as Benjamin Cooley. For, hidden in the text of Kangaroo, Robert Darroch has discovered a hitherto unrecognised homoerotic encounter that, paradoxically, gives the lie to accusations of homosexual tendencies in probably the 20th-century's most misunderstood author.


Product details

Authors Robert Darroch
Publisher Harpercollins
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.06.2022
 
EAN 9780994615565
ISBN 978-0-9946155-6-5
No. of pages 300
Dimensions 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
Weight 422 g
Subject Humanities, art, music > History

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