Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE -- Rhetoric and the Shaping of Narrative: The Total Lawrentian Text -- Imperial Drives: The Rhetoric of Erotic Appropriation -- Women in Love: Live Tropes and Dead Bodies -- SECTION TWO -- Sons and Lovers: Metaphor and the Erotics of Spatial Relationships -- Women in Love: The Art of Leaping -- Lady Chatterley's Lover: Metaphor and Mental Disturbance -- SECTION THREE -- The Rainbow: Metaphor and The Plots of Romance -- The Short Fiction: Metaphor and the Rituals of Courtship -- Lawrence and Jacques Derrida: A Dialog across the Abyss -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.