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.