This collection of original, concise essays by leading international scholars draws closely on the Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence to provide up-to-date insights into the key contexts to the author's life, career and legacy. It opens with an overview of Lawrence's life as it is explored in biographies and revealed in his letters and writing, before reassessing his relationship to the contemporary literary marketplace, and his response to - and intervention in - a range of literary/cultural and social/historical contexts. It ends with sections on Lawrence's changing critical reception and his powerful legacy in the work of later authors and filmmakers. The essays present a detailed and nuanced picture of Lawrence as an enterprising professional author with a truly cosmopolitan outlook who engaged deeply and strongly with his contemporary culture, and with currents of thought across a range of disciplines.

Provides accessible essays by leading international scholars, offering up-to-date insights into the key contexts to Lawrence's life, career and legacy.

About the Author
Andrew Harrison is Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of the D. H. Lawrence Research Centre at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on Lawrence. He has edited (with John Worthen) D. H. Lawrence's 'Sons and Lovers': A Casebook (2005), and is the author of D. H. Lawrence and Italian Futurism: A Study of Influence (2003) and The Life of D. H. Lawrence (2016).


Book Information
ISBN 9781108429399
Author Andrew Harrison
Format Hardback
Page Count 390
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 680g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm * 26mm