{"product_id":"the-life-of-the-author-d-h-lawrence-isbn-9781119669531","title":"The Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR D. H. LAWRENCE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAddresses the whole of D. H. Lawrence’s life and writing career—integrating biography, critical analysis, and recent scholarship in a single volume\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence \u003c\/i\u003eis a focused exploration of the whole of the author’s life and writing career. Combining biographical detail and close readings of works in different genres, the book illuminates the complexities of Lawrence’s writing through a careful, questioning approach to biographical sources and recent scholarship. Andrew Harrison provides original insights into Lawrence’s relationship to working-class experience, his anti-suffragist feminist views, his reaction to the Great War, his responses to racial and cultural difference, his attitudes towards sex, sexuality, and sexual identity, and much more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine accessible chapters address important subjects in the author’s life and writing, including his treatment of taboo topics, his conflicted relationship with the literary marketplace, and the ways in which his writing challenged English middle-class values. Each chapter draws upon the biographical record to provide an interpretive context while highlighting aspects of Lawrence’s work that relate to present-day concerns, such as his critical responses to wartime propaganda and censorship, his critique of heteronormativity, and his lifelong concern with issues around mental health and wholeness of being.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned to help readers develop a fresh understanding of Lawrence’s writing, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvestigates Lawrence’s wartime experiences, tracing his transformation from an author who wished to change the attitudes of his readers into a radical anti-establishment figure \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAddresses Lawrence’s explorations of gender fluidity and non-normative sexual identities in his fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscusses Lawrence’s concern with post-war social reconstruction and his risk-taking exploration of revolutionary political and religious movements in his novels of the 1920s \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEngages with psychoanalytic criticism on the attachment issues that shaped Lawrence’s life and writing, showing how he attempted to confront the psychic wounds of his childhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on materials and approaches the author has developed teaching Lawrence for more than two decades, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence \u003c\/i\u003eis an excellent textbook for undergraduate students taking English and English Literature courses, as well as graduate students discussing Lawrence in the contexts of early twentieth-century literature, literary modernism, and sexualities in modern literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Lawrence, Eastwood and Working-Class Experience 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Lawrence and Anti-Suffragist Feminism 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Lawrence, the Great War and Protest 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Writing Against the Middle Class: Lawrence, the Literary Marketplace and Censorship 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Identity 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Lawrence and Otherness: Discourses of Nation and Race 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Lawrence, ‘Leadership’ and the Charges of Fascism 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Collaboration and Creativity: Private Publication and Mass-Market Polemics 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Healing: Lawrence, the Mother- Incest Motive and Wholeness of Being 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 235\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANDREW HARRISON \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of the D. H. Lawrence Research Centre at the University of Nottingham, UK, and President of the D. H. Lawrence Society of Great Britain. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Life of D. H. Lawrence: A Critical Biography \u003c\/i\u003eand the editor of \u003ci\u003eD. H. Lawrence in Context.\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAddresses the whole of D. H. Lawrence’s life and writing career—integrating biography, critical analysis, and recent scholarship in a single volume\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence \u003c\/i\u003eis a focused exploration of the whole of the author’s life and writing career. Combining biographical detail and close readings of works in different genres, the book illuminates the complexities of Lawrence’s writing through a careful, questioning approach to biographical sources and recent scholarship. Andrew Harrison provides original insights into Lawrence’s relationship to working-class experience, his anti-suffragist feminist views, his reaction to the Great War, his responses to racial and cultural difference, his attitudes towards sex, sexuality, and sexual identity, and much more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine accessible chapters address important subjects in the author’s life and writing, including his treatment of taboo topics, his conflicted relationship with the literary marketplace, and the ways in which his writing challenged English middle-class values. Each chapter draws upon the biographical record to provide an interpretive context while highlighting aspects of Lawrence’s work that relate to present-day concerns, such as his critical responses to wartime propaganda and censorship, his critique of heteronormativity, and his lifelong concern with issues around mental health and wholeness of being.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned to help readers develop a fresh understanding of Lawrence’s writing, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvestigates Lawrence’s wartime experiences, tracing his transformation from an author who wished to change the attitudes of his readers into a radical anti-establishment figure \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAddresses Lawrence’s explorations of gender fluidity and non-normative sexual identities in his fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscusses Lawrence’s concern with post-war social reconstruction and his risk-taking exploration of revolutionary political and religious movements in his novels of the 1920s \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEngages with psychoanalytic criticism on the attachment issues that shaped Lawrence’s life and writing, showing how he attempted to confront the psychic wounds of his childhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on materials and approaches the author has developed teaching Lawrence for more than two decades, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence \u003c\/i\u003eis an excellent textbook for undergraduate students taking English and English Literature courses, as well as graduate students discussing Lawrence in the contexts of early twentieth-century literature, literary modernism, and sexualities in modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990278750437,"sku":"NP9781119669531","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119669531.jpg?v=1761787176","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-life-of-the-author-d-h-lawrence-isbn-9781119669531","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}