The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence
3 Volume Hardback Set
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- Authors:
- John Worthen, University of Nottingham
- Mark Kinkead-Weekes, University of Kent, Canterbury
- David Ellis, University of Kent, Canterbury
- Date Published: January 1998
- availability: Unavailable - out of print February 2005
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9780521631051
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The first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence draws on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, many of them hitherto unpublished, to reveal a complex portrait of an extraordinary man. It describes his upbringing in a small colliery town in Nottinghamshire, his years spent as a teacher and his disastrous sexual experiments with Jessie Chambers, Helen Corke and Alice Dax; provides a radical new account of his early relationship with Frieda Weekley, Lawrence's 'woman of a life-time'; and ends with the completion of his great autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers. This volume has already established itself as the most complete and authoritative account available. The second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912–22, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and most controversial writers of the twentieth century. During this period Lawrence produced the trio of novels with which he was to revolutionise English fiction over the next decade. It was a painful process: Sons and Lovers was crudely cut by its publisher; The Rainbow was destroyed by court order and Women in Love took almost three years to find a publisher. Drawing on memoirs, oral recollections, and unpublished manuscript material, this volume opens a new perspective on the central period of Lawrence's life and literary career. It deals squarely with the vexed issue of his personal life but above all it reveals the triumph of Lawrence's art during a decade of extraordinary trials in which he established himself as the most innovative and notorious novelist of his generation. The final volume of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Venice in 1930. Based on much new or unfamiliar material, it describes his travels in Ceylon, Australia, the USA and Mexico in an increasingly desperate search for an ideal community. With his return to Europe in 1925, there is a detailed account of his rediscovery of painting, his battle against censorship, and the vitality with which he resisted the debilitating effects of tuberculosis. Kangaroo, The Plumed Serpent and Lady Chatterley's Lover are usually seen as the literary landmarks of these years; but Lawrence also wrote remarkable novellas, essays, criticism, short stories and poems. Lawrence is revealed here not as the impotent and self-obsessed figure of popular legend, but as a man more complex, more humorous, and more exemplary in his resolute grappling with the central problems of life and death.
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- Date Published: January 1998
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9780521631051
- length: 2461 pages
- dimensions: 252 x 171 x 163 mm
- weight: 4.615kg
- availability: Unavailable - out of print February 2005
Table of Contents
Volume I: Author's preface
Illustrations and maps
Family tree
Chronology
Part I. Eastwood and Nottingham:
1. 1815–1883 Antecedents
2. 1883–1892 Home at Eastwood
3. 1892–1901 Launching into life
4. 1901–1905 Widening circles
5. 1905–1906 Writing and painting
6. 1906 Spirit love
7. 1906–1908 College Part II. Croydon and London
8. 1908–1909 Success
9. 1909–1910 Strife
10. 1910 The bitter river
11. 1911 The sick year
12. 1911–1912 Breaking off
Part III. Eastwood Again:
13. 1912 Spring
14. 1912 Frieda Weekley. Volume II: Part I. A World of Promise:
1. New life
2. New utterance
3. The Wedding Ring
Part II. Spear in the Side:
4. The Rainbow
5. Rainbow's end
Part III. Cornwall:
6. Midwinter life
7. Orpheus descending
Part IV. A Kind of Wintering:
8. On a ledge
9. Marking time
Part V. Italy Again:
10. Capri and Sicily
11. On the move
12. A sense of finality. Volume III: Chronology
maps
Part I. Faring Forth:
1. February–April 1922 Ceylon
2. April–August 1922 Australia
3. August–December 1922 New Mexico
4. December 1922–March 1923 Christmas at Del Monte
5. March–July 1923 Old Mexico
6. July–November 1923 New York, Los Angeles, Guadalajara
Part II. The Second Visit to America:
7. November 1923–March 1924 European interlude
8. March–October 1924 Back to New Mexico
9. October 1924–February 1925 Oaxaca and The Plumed Serpent
10. November 1924–February 1925 Brett is banished
11. February–September 1925 The return to the ranch
Part III: Europe Once More:
12. September 1925–April 1926 Spotorno
13. April–October 1926 Florence and England
14. October 1926–March 1927 Two Lady Chatterleys
15. March–August 1927 Change of life
16. August 1927–January 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover
17. January–June 1928 Last days at the Villa Mirenda
Part IV. The Marvel of Being Alive:
18. June–November 1928 The search for health
19. November 1928–March 1929 Bandol
20. March–July 1929 Old haunts and new
21. July 1929–January 1930 Battling on
22. January–2 March 1930 Venice
Appendix 1. The writing life, 1922–1930: Prose
Appendix 2. The writing life, 1922–1930: Poetry.
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