With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of
Reading. In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in
The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police
and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is
recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth
century. The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen
family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the
twentieth century. Within this framework Lawrence's essential
concern is with the passional lives of his characters as he
explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a
religious symbolism in which the 'rainbow' of the title is his
unifying motif. His primary focus is on the individual's struggle
to growth and fulfilment within marriage and changing social
circumstances, a process shown to grow more difficult through the
generations. Young Ursula Brangwen, whose story is continued in
Women in Love, is finally the central figure in Lawrence's anatomy
of the confining structures of English social life and the impact
of industrialisation and urbanisation on the human psyche.
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