Reading D. H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene

Gifford, Terry (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2025/09発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2025/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399535939
• DDC分類 823.912

Full Description

How do the works of D. H. Lawrence speak to readers in the age of the Anthropocene? In this volume, sixteen scholars from six countries explore different answers to this question, considering Lawrence's novels, short fiction, poetry, paintings and his often-provocative polemical essays. This comprehensive survey of Lawrence's writings and artworks reveals that his familiar enquiries into human nature were always situated within the energies, large and local, of what he calls 'the cosmos' which is our shared home. Lawrence challenges his readers by his movements between cynicism and idealism, dissolution and creativity, critique and regeneration the very tensions that confront us today in the face of industrial capitalism and environmental deterioration. This revelation of Lawrence's passionate 'environmentalism' not only fills what has been described as 'a gaping hole in Lawrence studies'. It also drills down into the heart of the problems holding back an adequate response to the climate crisis by offering fundamental values for recovery.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Reading Strategies for the Anthropocene
Terry Gifford

Part I. Reading Lawrence's Environmentalism
1. Rehabilitating Lawrence for the Anthropocene
Fiona Becket
2. Lawrence's Environmentalism: From 'Pastoral' to Anthropocene Rebirth
Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy
3. Against Rome and Modernity: 'naturalness verging on the commonplace' in Sketches of Etruscan Places
Neil Roberts

Part II. 'Interrelatedness' Redefines the Human
4. 'Its own weird anima': Lawrence 'Unpaints' the Human
Carrie Rohman
5. Lawrence's Embodied Guide to Navigating the Anthropocene in Women in Love
Marie Bertrand
6. Relationality in Lawrence's Non-Fiction
Tim Gupwell

Part III. 'New connections' with Animals and Other Beings
7. Anthropocene Aesthetics in Lawrence's Later Fiction
Harry Acton
8. Carrying the Other in D. H. Lawrence's 'The Man Who Loved Islands' and Last Poems
Maria Trejling
9. Lawrence and Proto-Veganism
Catherine Brown

Part IV. 'Interpenetration' of the Vegetal
10. Forests in Lawrence and Philippe Descola
Fiona Fleming
11. Lawrence and Scale
Patrick Armstrong
12. Lawrence's Vegetal Poetics and the Anthropocene
Chao Xie

Part V. 'Re-establish the living organic connections with the cosmos'
13. Complicity and Critique
Jeff Wallace
14. Nature, Transformation and the Frankfurt School in Lawrence's Late Fiction
Howard J. Booth
15. Beginning at the End: Lawrence's Apocalypse as Eco-Revelation
Adrian Tait

Notes on Contributors
Index