The Critical Response to D.H. Lawrence
Edited by Jan Pilditch
Critical Responses in Arts and Letters, Number 38
GREENWOOD PRESS Westport, Connecticut • London Contents
Preface xv Acknowledgements xvii Chronology xix Introduction xxv
I The White Peacock
Anonymous Review of The White Peacock 1 Raney Stanford, "Thomas Hardy and Lawrence's The White Peacock" 1 Michael Squires, "Lawrence's The White Peacock: A Mutation of the Pastoral" . 10
Lascelles Abercrombie, Review 27 Mark Schorer, "Technique as Discovery" 28 Colin Holmes, "A Study of D.H. Lawrence's Social Origins" 41 Earl Ingersoll, "Gender and Language in Sons and Lovers" 52
III The Rainbow
Seymour Lainoff, "The Rainbow: The Shaping of Modern Man" 61 Edward Engelberg, "Escape from the Circles of Experience: D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow as a Modern Bildungsroman" 66 James Twitchell, "Lawrence's Lamias: Predatory Women in The Rainbow and Women in Love" 82
IV Women in Love
Rebecca West, "Notes on Novels" 101 John Middleton Murry, "Dr Leavis on D.H. Lawrence" 104 Jack F. Stewart, "Primitivism in Women in Love" 109 xii Contents
Judith Ruderman, "Rekindling the 'Father-Spark': Lawrence's Ideal of Leadership in The Lost Girl and The Plumed Serpent" 125 John Humma, "The Imagery of The Plumed Serpent: The Going-Under of Organicism" 140 Kimberley VanHoosier-Carey, "Struggling with the Master: The Position of Kate and the Reader in Lawrence's 'Quetzalcoatl' and The Plumed Serpent' ~ 153
VI Lady Chatterley's Lover
Aldous Huxley, "The Censor" 167 Mark Spilka, "Lawrence's Quarrel with Tenderness" , 170 David Ellis, "D.H. Lawrence and the Female Body" 184
VH Plays
Edward Garnett, "Introduction" to A Collier's Friday Night 195 Edward Sackville West, "A Modern Isaiah" 196 Alan Rudrum, "Stage Sons, Stage Lovers" 200 Ronald Bryden, "Strindberg in the Midlands" 201 George A. Panichas, "D.H. Lawrence's Biblical Play David" 202 Cecil Davies, "D.H. Lawrence: "The Merry-Go-Round: A Challenge to the Theatre" 213
VIII The Short Fiction
George Orwell, "The Prussian Officer' and Other Stories" 227 John B. Vickery. "Myth and Ritual in the Shorter Fiction of D.H. Lawrence" 230 R.P. Draper, "The Defeat of Feminism: D.H. Lawrence's The Fox and 'The Woman Who Rode Away'" 244 James C. Cowan. "D.H. Lawrence's 'The Princess' as Ironic Romance" 254 Leo Gurko, "D.H. Lawrence's Greatest Collection of Short Stories—What Holds It Together" 259 Volker Schulz, "D.H. Lawrence's Early Masterpiece of Short Fiction:'Odour of Chrysanthemums'" 266 Harbour Winn, "Parallel Inward Journeys: A Passage to India and St. Mawr" 272 Contents xiii
IX Poetry
A. Williams-Ellis, "Mr D.H. Lawrence's Work" [Amores: Poems] 275 William J. Fisher, "Peace and Passivity: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence" 277 Keith Sagar, "Open Shelf and Open Poem: The Stages of D.H. Lawrence's Poetic Quest" 286 Del Ivan Janik, "D.H. Lawrence's 'Future Religion': The Unity of Last Poems" 297
X The Letters and Prose
John Macy, "The American Spirit" 311 Catherine Carswell, "D.H. Lawrence in His Letters" 313 Frederick J. Hoffman, "From Surrealism to 'The Apocalypse': A Development in Twentieth Century Irrationalism" 321 Harry T. Moore, "Some New Volumes of Lawrence's Letters" 327 Evelyn J. Hinz, "The Beginning and the End: D.H. Lawrence's Psychoanalysis and Fantasia" 335 Peter Bien, "The Critical Philosophy of D.H. Lawrence" 346 Mara Kalnins, '"Terra Incognita': Lawrence's Travel Writings" 353
Selected Bibliography " 365 Index 395