'Longman Preface books are intended to give "modern and authoritative guidance" on the lives and works of the major writers ... Gamini Salgado's A Preface to Lawrence does just that.' Times Educational Supplement
D. H. Lawrence, criticised, censored and dismissed in his lifetime, now stands as one of the major imaginative novelists of the early twentieth-century.
Clear, vivid and convincing, Gamini Salgado's introduction to the life and works of D H Lawrence, sets the writer firmly in the context of his times and:
* outlines his life and intellectual background, and their effect on his writing
* looks in detail at many of Lawrence's works, including Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, his shorter fiction, poetry and plays
* examines Lawrence as a literary critic
* covers important people and places in Lawrence's life and their effect on him
Gamini Salgado was formerly Professor of English at Exeter University. His works include a book on Sons and Lovers (Arnold), an anthology of critisism of it (Macmillan) and a number of studies of drama and prose literature.
Author(s): Gamini Salgado
Edition: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1982
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part One: The Writer and His Setting
Chronological table
1 Lawrence's life
Eastwood and Haggs Farm-'The country of my heart'
A college education
Croydon and London: from teaching to writing
Frieda Weekley: 'The woman of a lifetime'
Journey into Italy
Return to England
Italy, and England again: marriage
The nightmare of the war years
The years of exile: Sicily, Australia, New Mexico
Europe once more: death in Vence
2 The intellectual background
The novelist as prophet
Lawrence and provincialism
Lawrence and provincialism: the example of Hardy
Lawrence and Romanticism
Lawrence's quarrel with Freud
Lawrence today
Part Two: Critical Survery
3 The While Peacock: experience versus expectations
4 Sons and Lovers
Life into art: the truth of fiction
Son and lover: the unmaking of a hero
The mother as moulder: failure and success
Women in a man's world
Sons and Lovers and the English novel
5 The Rainbow
Story and fable: the biblical framework
Repetition and variation: Lawrence's narrative method
Diamond, coal and carbon: Lawrence's view of character
The uses of symbolism
The novelist and the preacher
Lawrence's sense of an ending
6 Women in Love
7 The shorter fiction
'Odour of Chrysanthemums'
'The Escaped Cock'/'The Man Who Died'
8 Lawrence's poetry
Look! We Have Come Through!
Birds, Beasts and Flowers
'Pansies' and 'Nettles'
Last Poems
9 Lawrence as literary critic
The form and range of Lawrence's criticism
Critical theory and practice
Literature and life
10 Lawrence's plays
Part Three: Reference Section
Short biographies
Gazetteer
Further reading
Index
