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D. H. Lawrence, Transport and Cultural Transition
Andrew F. Humphries
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Hardback. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book discusses D. H. Lawrence’s interest in, and engagement with, transport as a literal and metaphorical focal point for his ontological concerns. Focusing on five key novels, this book explores issues of mobility, modernity and gender. First exploring how mechanized transportation reflects industry and patriarchy in Sons and Lovers, the book then considers issues of female mobility in The Rainbow, the signifying of war transport in Women in Love, revolution and the meeting of primitive and modern in The Plumed Serpent, and the reflection of dystopian post-war concerns in Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Appealing to Lawrence, modernist, and mobilities researchers, this ... Read more
This book discusses D. H. Lawrence’s interest in, and engagement with, transport as a literal and metaphorical focal point for his ontological concerns. Focusing on five key novels, this book explores issues of mobility, modernity and gender. First exploring how mechanized transportation reflects industry and patriarchy in Sons and Lovers, the book then considers issues of female mobility in The Rainbow, the signifying of war transport in Women in Love, revolution and the meeting of primitive and modern in The Plumed Serpent, and the reflection of dystopian post-war concerns in Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Appealing to Lawrence, modernist, and mobilities researchers, this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
Number of Pages
297
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319508108
SKU
V9783319508108
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99-15
About Andrew F. Humphries
Andrew F. Humphries is Senior Lecturer in English Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, specialising in twentieth-century literature and modernism. He has also taught on courses in British Drama, Victorian Literature and on the theme of Childhood and Children in Literature. He is co-editor with Adrienne E. Gavin of two books: the international award-winning Childhood in Edwardian Fiction: Worlds ... Read more
Reviews for D. H. Lawrence, Transport and Cultural Transition
“IN THIS EXCELLENT, INNOVATIVE STUDY, Andrew F. Humphries has written an integrated cultural, theoretical, and close-textual reading of five major novels of D. H. Lawrence … . I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically recommend this innovative, persuasively revisionist discussion of Lawrence’s major novels. Each chapter offers surprising and convincing readings of the fiction. I suspect that D. H. Lawrence and Transport will ... Read more