D. H. Lawrence

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • John Beer

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3. Fresh Thinking at the Turn of the Century

   • John Beer

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4. The Riddling Narrative of Nature

   • John Beer

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5. Realism, Romance and the Transformation of Narrative

   • John Beer

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6. The Vulnerability of Passion

   • John Beer

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7. Frieda von Richthofen and her Background

   • John Beer

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8. In Search of an Adequate Symbol

   • John Beer

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9. Corruption, Energy and a Flowering Moon

   • John Beer

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10. The Limitations of Transcendence

    • John Beer

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11. Negativity in Post-War Life

    • John Beer

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12. To the End of the Earth

    • John Beer

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13. Dimensions of Consciousness in the Tales

    • John Beer

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14. Probing the Contradictions of Nature

    • John Beer

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15. Tenderness and the Modes of Energy

    • John Beer

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16. Final Thoughts

    • John Beer

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17. The Nature of Lawrence’s Poetry

    • John Beer

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18. An Elusive Identity

    • John Beer

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19. Back Matter

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A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural.

• D. H. Lawrence
• Modernism
• 20th-Century Fiction
• 15th century
• bibliography
• consciousness
• David Herbert Lawrence
• energy
• identity
• nature
• poetry
• realism
• transformation
• British and Irish Literature

“There is no doubt that Beer’s study is learned, comprehensive and very interesting to read for anyone who wants to contextualize Lawrence’s work … Beer's well written monograph offers an elaborate presentation of the biographical and philosophical structure and substructure of much of Lawrence's work and is of interest to all those who are interested in a comprehensive and sophisticated contextualising approach to Lawrence.” (Stefan Horlacher, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Vol. 254 (1), 2017)

• University of Cambridge, UK

  John Beer

John Beer is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse. His work on Romanticism includes Coleridge the Visionary, Coleridge's Poetic Intelligence, Blake's Humanism, Blake's Visionary Universe, Wordsworth and the Human Heart, Wordsworth in Time, Questioning Romanticism (ed.), Romantic Influences and Providence and Love. He has edited Coleridge's Poems for Everyman's Library, his Aids to Reflection for the Collected Works and is General Editor of the series Coleridge's Writings.

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