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D.H. Lawrence - The Utopian Vision (Hardcover)
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D.H. Lawrence - The Utopian Vision (Hardcover)
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The dominant view of D.H. Lawrence's work has long been that of F.
R. Leavis, who confined Lawrence within an exclusively ethical and
artistic tradition. In D.H. Lawrence: The Utopian Vision, Eugene
Goodheart widens the context in which Lawrence should be understood
to include European as well as English writers - Blake, Nietzsche,
Rilke, and Freud among others. Goodheart shows that the
characteristic impulse of Lawrence's principal discovery was the
bodily or physical life that he believed man had once possessed in
his pre-civilized past and must now fully recover if future
civilized life is possible. Goodheart's argument fully engages the
paradoxes of Lawrence's writing. He is at once the last great
representative of the moral tradition of the English novel and of
the English Protestant imagination and a novelist without
precedent, a diabolist in the service of the dark gods. He rejects
the claims of society, while simultaneously lamenting the thwarting
of the societal instinct. The oppositions and paradoxes in the work
are the expression of a single, not always coherent, revolutionary
imagination. D.H. Lawrence: The Utopian Vision provides a rigorous
and critical analysis of the ideological character of Lawrence's
novels and essays, in particular the effect of his utopianism on
his views of nature, myth, and religious experience, while
responding to his aesthetic achievement. Goodheart's Lawrence is a
prophetic artist whose vision is at once inspiring and dangerous.
In the new introduction to the book, Goodheart reflects upon the
vicissitudes of Lawrence's reputation since the sixties when the
book first appeared and his relevance to the concerns of our own
time.
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