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Comparing Lawrence's texts to various major and minor contemporary novels, journal articles, political pamphlets and history books, this book aims to demonstrate that Lawrence's texts are ambivalent.
List of contents
Introduction
Annihilating Borders: Nature, Human Beings, Machinery in "Odour of Chrysanthemums"
Chapter 1. Degeneration, Aestheticism and Empire: Middle-Class Ideology and
The White PeacockChapter 2. Bestwood and the Morels under Evolution: Parallelism through Procreation and Evolution in
Sons and LoversChapter 3. The Brangwens and Construction of the Towns in
The RainbowChapter 4. Lawrence and War: Historical Contexts
I. Lawrence and the First World War
II. Lawrence and Anti-German Propaganda
III. History Books in Context
Chapter 5. Wartime Discourses on War and Peace in
Movements in European HistoryI. The Germanic Race
II. The Huns
III. The Unification of Germany
Chapter 6. To Produce, or Not to Produce, That is the Question: Materialism, Democracy and War in
Women in LoveChapter 7. Wartime Short Stories from "The Thimble" to "The Blind Man" and "Tickets Please"
I. Popular Wartime Romance and Lawrence's Anti-Romance: Berta Ruck's "The Infant-in Arms" and Lawrence's "The Thimble"
II. The Path to Resurrection or Becoming a War Machine in "New Heaven and Earth", "Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani" and "England, My England"
III. Short Fiction in 1918: "The Fox", "The Blind Man" and "Tickets Please"
Chapter 8. Class Conflicts in Ambivalence from "Daughters of the Vicar" and "Hadrian" to
Lady Chatterley's LoverI. Middle-Class Anxiety and its Solution in "Daughters of the Vicar"
II. Returned Soldier and Working-Class Threat in "Hadrian"
III.
Lady Chatterley's Lover: Temptation to the Bourgeois Myth
Epilogue. Which Class Do Lawrence's Texts Belong To?
About the author
Gaku Iwai is Professor of English at Konan University in Kobe, Japan. He is a co-editor and co-translator of the Japanese version of the
Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, and the former chief editor of
Japan D. H. Lawrence Studies. He has published numerous articles on D. H. Lawrence, J. M. Barrie, J. G. Ballard and Margaret Atwood, among others. He is also a co-author of several books on Lawrence and twentieth-century British writers, including
D. H. Lawrence, Technology, and Modernity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).
