D. H. Lawrence : A Study of Literary Fascism.
Title:
D. H. Lawrence : A Study of Literary Fascism.
Author:
Al-Dabbagh, Abdulla.
ISBN:
9781453907979
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (167 pages)
Series:
Studies in Twentieth-Century British Literature ; v.9
Studies in Twentieth-Century British Literature
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Preface vii -- 1. The Age of Imperialism 1 -- The epoch of imperialism -- Imperialist ideology -- Imperialism and the intelligentsia -- The reactionary literary intellectuals -- 2. Lawrence and the Ruling Ideology 15 -- D.H. Lawrence, a member of the reactionary literary intelligentsia -- The effect of Lawrence's outlook on his work as a novelist -- Was Lawrence a revolutionary? -- Lawrence and the First World War -- His development into a fascist -- 3. Lawrence and Socialism 34 -- "Art and the Individual" -- The White Peacock -- Touch and Go -- Aaron's Rod -- Kangaroo -- The Plumed Serpent -- Lady Chatterley's Lover -- The First Lady Chatterley -- 4. Literature and Revolution 63 -- Lawrence's novels and social reality -- Literature in the epoch of socialist revolution -- Lawrence's fascist literary outlook -- His later poems -- 5. The Decay of Imperialist Culture 84 -- The historical roots of the fascist intelligentsia -- Lawrence and the Fabians -- Lawrence and the Cambridge / Bloomsbury intellectuals -- Lawrence, Nietzsche, and imperialist anthropology -- Lawrence, psychoanalysis, and modernist literature -- Revolutionary writers and "national culture" -- Looking forward -- 6. Lawrence, Fascism and the Critics 107 -- H. M. Daleski, J. Strachey, G. Hough -- T.S. Eliot -- F.R. Leavis -- Christopher Caudwell -- Arnold Kettle -- Raymond Williams -- Rolf Gardiner -- 7. Afterword: Lawrence and the Contemporary Scene 131 -- Lawrence and contemporary criticism -- Lawrence and literary fascism -- Lawrence, postmodernism, and racism -- Bibliography 151.
Abstract:
This book is an analysis of the social and political outlook of D.H. Lawrence as determined by the development and conflict of the social forces of his time. It discusses, specifically, the relationship between Lawrence's ideas, as an essayist and novelist, and the ruling ideology of imperialism, reaching the conclusion that Lawrence refused to face and oppose capitalist reality. He either escaped into an imaginary, anarchic utopia, or, more frequently, criticized capitalist relationships from the standpoint of a fascist, militaristic division into rulers and mob, aristocrats and plebeians. Lawrence's letters during the First World War provide the documents that reveal the genesis of his fascist outlook. The book also traces Lawrence's attitude towards socialism throughout his literary career and concludes that anti-socialism, with varying intensity, remained an essential part of his outlook. Certain assumptions, like a contempt for man as a social being and the existential division of human beings into higher and lower creatures - into the average and the exceptional - that were basic to his outlook, are shown to be the determining factors in the writing of Lawrence's novels. The book ends with an analysis of the historical roots of the reactionary intelligentsia and discusses Lawrence's relationships with the various cultural and ideological trends of his time, dealing also with the different tactics used by the critics to hide the true nature of his political ideas.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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