D. H. Lawrence

The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Herausgeber: Boulton, James T.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An authoritative selection of letters by one of the great English letter-writers is here published for the first time in paperback. 'James T. Boulton, the chief editor of [the] definitive collection [of Lawrence's letters] has now condensed from it an admirable 500-pages worth of The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence. Section by section introductions, summary biographies of correspondents, and illuminating explanatory footnotes equip the reader to follow the contours of Lawrence's adult life as he progresses from teacher in Croydon to suspected German spy in Cornwall during the Great War, to wanderer in self-imposed exile in Australia, the US and Mexico, and finally consumptive, dying in Provence.' Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph 'Five thousand letters cram the eight-volume Cambridge edition of Lawrence's correspondence. So this selection, representing the full range of Lawrence's influential acquaintance, is welcome. Angry, combative, scurrilous, the letters are also sometimes uniquely lyrical.' Independent on Sunday

Table of contents:
Introduction; Biographical list of correspondents; Letters: 1. The formative years, 1885-1913; 2. The Rainbow and Women in Love, 1913-1916; 3. Cornwall and Italy, 1916-1921; 4. Eastwards to the new world, 1921-1924; 5. New Mexico, Mexico and Italy, 1924-1927; 6. Europe and Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1927-1928; 7. Decline and death, 1928-1930.

'The Selected Letters succeeds admirably in representing Lawrence's quirky brilliance, his always surprising common sense, and above all else the sheer beauty of his writing.' English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

'This invigorating collection ... is ... a monument to scholarship for which we should be grateful.' D. H. Lawrence Review

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9780521401159
• ISBN-10: 0521401151
• Artikelnr.: 21770486

Autorenporträt

David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885. He was not only an important but also disputable English essayist of the 20th century. He was one of the main scholars of English Modernism. Lawrence was a skilled author who wrote several books, brief tales, sonnets, plays, papers, travel guides, artistic creations, interpretations, abstract analyses, and individual letters. Lawrence is remembered today for stretching the boundaries beyond what was regarded as satisfactory in abstract fiction whereas different Modernists such as Joyce and Woolf were content to radicalize the types of writing, Lawrence focused on extending the scope of the artistic topic. Specifically, he consolidated Freudian therapy, forthright portrayals of sexuality, and enchanted strict subjects into his works that were very unexpected and fresh to the crowds of his time. Even though he is regarded as one of the main figures in the early history of Modernism, Lawrence stays questionable. His monstrous result is famously lopsided and he never lived to the point of refining his views into reasonable thoughts. Different pundits mock Lawrence unequivocally and it is the case that a portion of his lesser works was composed more to stun than to illuminate the brain with the brightness of workmanship genuinely. Regardless, Lawrence was a virtuoso of the greatest request, and his most modern sonnets and books are among the most persuasive works of 20th-century writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Biographical list of correspondents; Letters: 1. The formative years, 1885
1913; 2. The Rainbow and Women in Love, 1913
16; 3. Cornwall and Italy, 1916
21; 4. Eastwards to the new world, 1921
4; 5. New Mexico, Mexico and Italy, 1924
7; 6. Europe and Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1927
8; 7. Decline and death, 1928
30.