D. H. Lawrence and Ambivalence in the Age of Modernity: Rereading Midlands Novels and Wartime Writings in Social and Political Contexts

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
	Annihilating Borders: Nature, Human Beings, Machinery in “Odour of Chrysanthemums”
	Notes
1 Degeneration, Aestheticism and Empire: Middle-Class Ideology and The White Peacock
	Degeneration and Ideology
	Aesthetic Ideology
	Anti-Middle-Class Ideology
	Notes
2 Bestwood and the Morels Under Evolution: Parallelism Through Procreation and Evolution in Sons and Lovers
	Transition
	Bestwood and Capitalism
	Mrs Morel
	Walter Morel
	The Morels
	Notes
3 The Brangwens and Construction of the Towns in The Rainbow
	The Ur-Brangwens
	The First and Second Generation
	The Third Generation: Ursula and Skrebensky
	Parallel Development of a Family and a Town
	Notes
4 Lawrence and War: Historical Contexts
	Lawrence and the First World War
	Lawrence and Anti-German Propaganda
	History Books in Context
	Notes
5 Wartime Discourses On War and Peace in Movements in European History
	The Germanic Race
	The Huns
	The Unification of Germany
	Notes
6 To Produce, Or Not to Produce, That Is the Question: Materialism, Democracy and War in Women in Love
	Technology, Labour-Management Strife and Democracy in the Early Twentieth Century
	Women in Love, Democracy and War
	The Network of Family, Nation and War
	Gerald and Germany
	The End of the Matter
	Notes
7 Wartime Short Stories From “The Thimble” to “The Blind Man” and “Tickets Please”
	Popular Wartime Romance and Lawrence’s Anti-Romance: Berta Ruck’s “The Infant-In Arms” and Lawrence’s “The Thimble”
	The Path to Resurrection Or Becoming a War Machine in “New Heaven and Earth”, “Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani” and “England, My England”
	Short Fiction in 1918: “The Fox”, “The Blind Man” and “Tickets Please”
		“The Blind Man”: Can a Returned Hero Purify Pre-War Corruption?
		“Tickets Please”: A Story of Immanent Violence in British Society
	Notes
8 Class Conflicts in Ambivalence From “Daughters of the Vicar” and “Hadrian” to Lady Chatterley’s Lover
	Middle-Class Anxiety and Its Solution in “Daughters of the Vicar”
	Returned Soldier and Working-Class Threat in “Hadrian”
	Lady Chatterley’s Lover: Temptation to the Bourgeois Myth
		Subversion of Dualism
		Representations of the Upper and Lower Classes and Their Crossover
		From Touch and Go to Lady Chatterley’s Lover
		Which Class Does Mellors Belong To?
	Notes
Epilogue: Which Class Do Lawrence’s Texts Belong To?
	Notes
Bibliography
Index