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The Civil War, the Protectorate, and the Restoration – the
extraordinary upheavals at the fulcrum of English history – are
embodied here in the story of a remarkable man, politician, and
prisoner: the regicide Henry Marten. As an organiser of the trial
of Charles I and a signatory of the King’s death warrant, he was
targeted for prosecution once the monarchy was restored in 1660.
Marten was convicted of High Treason and spent years on the
equivalent of death row, writing letters that now give a rare and
extraordinary insight into the life of a prisoner in the Tower of
London. John Worthen’s revelatory biography uncovers the
brilliant mind, modern mindset, political vigour, tender bravery,
and extraordinarily emblematic life of a neglected
seventeenth-century figure.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (Paperback)
D. H Lawrence; Introduction by Geoff Dyer; Afterword by John Worthen
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"Lady Chatterley's Lover" is both one of the most beautiful and
notorious love stories in modern fiction. The summation of D.H.
Lawrence's artistic achievement, it sharply illustrates his belief
that tenderness and passion were the only weapons that could save
man from self-destruction.
"The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd," written immediately after Sons and
Lovers, is one of D. H. Lawrence's most significant early works.
The play, Lawrence's first, is the alter ego of the story "Odour of
Chrysanthemums" and, like the short story, deals with a catastrophe
in the lives of a coal mining family. Drawing upon the intensity of
events that unfold in the miner's kitchen, the play explores a
marriage bowed under the weight of a husband's drinking and
infidelity and peers into the strange, burgeoning relationship
between the neglected wife, Mrs. Holroyd, and the young electrician
in whom she seeks emotional refuge. First published in 1914, The
"Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd" is a bare tracing of the ways in which a
marriage has gone wrong.
Shattering longstanding myths, this new biography reveals the
robust and positive life of one of the nineteenth century's
greatest composers This candid, intimate, and compellingly written
new biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It
confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic,
forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness.
John Worthen's scrupulous attention to the original sources reveals
Schumann to have been an astute, witty, articulate, and immensely
determined individual, who-with little support from his family and
friends in provincial Saxony-painstakingly taught himself his craft
as a musician, overcame problem after problem in his professional
life, and married the woman he loved after a tremendous battle with
her father. Schumann was neither manic depressive nor
schizophrenic, although he struggled with mental illness. He worked
prodigiously hard to develop his range of musical styles and to
earn his living, only to be struck down, at the age of forty-four,
by a vile and incurable disease. Worthen's biography effectively
de-mystifies a figure frequently regarded as a Romantic enigma. It
frees Schumann from 150 years of mythmaking and unjustified
psychological speculation. It reveals him, for the first time, as a
brilliant, passionate, resolute musician and a thoroughly creative
human being, the composer of arguably the best music of his
generation.
This collection of short pieces (mostly unpublished, mostly
lectures) represents work done between 1994 and 2008 by John
Worthen, now Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham and
its Professor of D. H. Lawrence Studies, 1994-2003. They range
between his research into the manuscript of D. H. Lawrence's story
New Eve and Old Adam in Tulsa, to his farewell lecture (Ways of
Saying Goodbye) at the University of Nottingham. Brief
introductions recall the original occasions when the pieces were
written or given as lectures; they recall John Worthen's underlying
interest in the biographical and the tangible.
D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider is an illuminating and
clear-sighted portrait of one of the twentieth century's most
brilliant, radical and misunderstood writers. John Worthen follows
Lawrence's from his awkward and intense youth in Nottinghamshire,
through his turbulent relationship with Frieda and the years of
exile abroad to his premature death at the age of 44. His account
is an intimate and absolutely compelling reappraisal of a man who
believed himself to be an outsider, in angry revolt against his
class, culture and country, and who was engaged in a furious
commitment to his writing and a passionate struggle to live
according to his beliefs.
Lawrence's genius is unquestioned, but he is seldom considered a
writer interested in comedy. This 1996 collection of essays by
distinguished scholars explores the range, scope and sheer verve of
Lawrence's comic writing. Comedy for Lawrence was not, as his
contemporary Freud insisted, a mere defence mechanism. The comic
mode enabled him to function parodically to undermine radically
those forms of authority from which he always felt estranged.
Lawrence's critique of the modern failure of the mystic impulse is
present in all the comic moments in his writing where it is used to
create an alternative cultural and social space. Lawrence used
humour to distance himself from the dominant orthodoxy surrounding
him, from the material of his fiction, from his readers, and,
finally, from his own often intensely serious preoccupations. This
book revises the popular image of Lawrence as a humourless writer
and reveals his strategic use of a genuine comic talent.
Studies in Classic American Literature, first published in 1923,
provides a cross-section of D. H. Lawrence's writing on American
literature, including landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, James
Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman
Melville and Walt Whitman. Eight of the essays were first published
in the English Review 1918-19; but Lawrence continued to work on
his material, with the aim of producing a full-length book; at
various times fifteen separate items belonged to it, all of them
revised on different occasions, some of them four or five times,
and often corrected with the errors of their predecessors
preserved. This volume offers the final 1923 version of the text in
a newly corrected and uncensored form, and the complete surviving
text of the essays of the English Review period, as well as a host
of other materials, including four different versions of Lawrence's
pioneering essay on Whitman.
This 2004 volume collects together the introductions and reviews
for which Lawrence was responsible over the whole duration of his
writing career, from 1911 to 1930: it includes the book review
which was the last thing he ever wrote, in the Ad Astra Sanatorium
in Vence. The forty-nine separate items include some of his most
compelling literary productions: for example, the fascinating
Memoir of Maurice Magnus of 1921 2, his only extended piece of
biographical writing. The volume's Introduction not only outlines
the literary contacts of Lawrence's career which led him to doing
such work, but gives a fresh account of the life of a literary
professional who regularly wrote in support of work in which he
personally believed, and who also (rather surprisingly) wrote
reviews of nearly thirty books. All the texts, including a number
previously unpublished in Britain, have been edited and are
supplied with extensive explanatory notes."
Author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan' and
'Christabel', and co-author with Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads in
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great writers and
thinkers of the Romantic revolution. This innovative introduction
discusses his interest in language and his extraordinary private
notebooks, as well as his poems, his literary criticism and his
biography. John Worthen presents a range of readings of Coleridge's
work, along with biographical context and historical background.
Discussion of Coleridge's notebooks alongside his poems illuminates
this rich material and finds it a way into his creativity. Readers
are invited to see Coleridge as an immensely self-aware, witty and
charismatic writer who, although damaged by an opium habit,
responded to and in his turn influenced the literary, political,
religious and scientific thinking of his time.
Author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan' and
'Christabel', and co-author with Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads in
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great writers and
thinkers of the Romantic revolution. This innovative introduction
discusses his interest in language and his extraordinary private
notebooks, as well as his poems, his literary criticism and his
biography. John Worthen presents a range of readings of Coleridge's
work, along with biographical context and historical background.
Discussion of Coleridge's notebooks alongside his poems illuminates
this rich material and finds it a way into his creativity. Readers
are invited to see Coleridge as an immensely self-aware, witty and
charismatic writer who, although damaged by an opium habit,
responded to and in his turn influenced the literary, political,
religious and scientific thinking of his time.
Lawrence's genius is unquestioned, but he is seldom considered a
writer interested in comedy. This 1996 collection of essays by
distinguished scholars explores the range, scope and sheer verve of
Lawrence's comic writing. Comedy for Lawrence was not, as his
contemporary Freud insisted, a mere defence mechanism. The comic
mode enabled him to function parodically to undermine radically
those forms of authority from which he always felt estranged.
Lawrence's critique of the modern failure of the mystic impulse is
present in all the comic moments in his writing where it is used to
create an alternative cultural and social space. Lawrence used
humour to distance himself from the dominant orthodoxy surrounding
him, from the material of his fiction, from his readers, and,
finally, from his own often intensely serious preoccupations. This
book revises the popular image of Lawrence as a humourless writer
and reveals his strategic use of a genuine comic talent.
This casebook on D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers is the first to
address itself to the full text of the novel, first published in
1992. The introduction discusses the novel's composition and the
range of approaches adopted by critics since its original
publication in 1913. The nine essays that follow demonstrate the
full extent of the contemporary critical response, from studies of
narrative technique to psychoanalytic and gender-based analysis,
and set the critical agenda for its study in the twenty-first
century. This collection also reproduces excerpts from Lawrence's
letters relating to Sons and Lovers, along with a full
transcription of Alfred Booth Kuttner's 1916 Freudian analysis of
the work.
This volume collects together the introductions and reviews for
which Lawrence was responsible over the whole duration of his
writing career, from 1911 to 1930: it includes the book review
which was the last thing he ever wrote, in the Ad Astra Sanatorium
in Vence. The forty-nine separate items include some of his most
compelling literary productions: for example, the fascinating
Memoir of Maurice Magnus of 1921-22, his only extended piece of
biographical writing. The volume's Introduction not only outlines
the literary contacts of Lawrence's career which led him to doing
such work, but gives a fresh account of the life of a literary
professional who regularly wrote in support of work in which he
personally believed, and who also (rather surprisingly) wrote
reviews of nearly thirty books. All the texts, including a number
previously unpublished in Britain, have been freshly edited and are
supplied with extensive Explanatory notes.
"A Night or two after a worse Rogue there came, The head of the
Gang, one Wordsworth by name . . ."-Coleridge, A Soliloquy of the
full Moon, April 1802 Over a dramatic six-month period in 1802,
William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Wordsworth's sister Dorothy,
and the two Hutchinson sisters Sara and Mary formed a close-knit
group whose members saw or wrote to one another constantly.
Coleridge, whose marriage was collapsing, was in love with Sara,
and Wordsworth was about to be married to Mary, who would be moving
in beside Dorothy in their Grasmere cottage. Throughout this
extraordinary period both poets worked on some of their finest and
most familiar poems, Coleridge's Dejection: An Ode and Wordsworth's
Immortality Ode. In this fascinating book, John Worthen recreates
the group's intertwined lives and the effect they had on one
another. Drawing on the group's surviving letters, and poems, as
well as Dorothy's diaries, Worthen throws new light on many old
problems. He examines the prehistory of the events of 1802, the
dynamics of the group between March and July, the summer of 1802,
when Wordsworth and Dorothy visited Calais to see his ex-mistress
and his daughter Caroline, and the wedding between Wordsworth and
Mary in October of that year. In an epilogue he looks forward to
the ways in which relationships changed during 1803, concentrating
on a single day-11 January 1803-in the lives of the group.
The novel here called The First 'Women in Love' is the first
version of the novel widely regarded as Lawrence's greatest: Women
in Love. Lawrence wrote it in 1916 and did his very best to have it
published; but his previous novel had been banned and The First
'Women in Love' was rejected by every publisher who saw it. As a
result its very existence as an independent text has been ignored
and it is now published for the first time. It shares much of its
material with the final version of the novel, but its central
relationships are dissimilar and the ending radically different.
Above all, its tone is more positive, the final version being
influenced by Lawrence's increasing sense of isolation. The First
'Women in Love' is, arguably, one of Lawrence's very greatest
works; it is a piece of fiction generated in - and in many ways
searingly and poignantly addressed to - the England, and the
Europe, of the First World War.
This first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence draws on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, many of them previously unpublished, to reveal a complex portrait of an extraordinary man. It describes his upbringing in a small colliery town in Nottinghamshire, and the years he spent as a teacher in London before the blossoming of his literary career. It offers new insights into his disastrous sexual experiments with Jessie Chambers, Helen Corke, Louie Burrows and Alice Dax, and provides a radically new account of his early relationship with Frieda Weekley, six years older than he, married and with three children, but to Lawrence the "woman of a lifetime." The volume ends with Lawrence completing his great autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers, destined to become one of the most widely read novels of the twentieth century. Volume 2 (1912-1922) by Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Volume 3 (1922-1930) by David Ellis will be published in late 1992 and early 1994, respectively. John Worthen, the author of D. H. Lawrence and the Idea of the Novel (1979, Rowman and Littlefield) and D. H. Lawrence: A Literary Life (1989, St. Martin's Press) has edited several of the volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence. ID. H. Lawrence: The Cambridge Biography
Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories gathers together all of
Lawrence's short stories not collected in the Prussian Officer
volume. It offers a range of work from Lawrence's earliest
surviving published story, 'A Prelude', to 'New Eve and Old Adam'
written at the height of his early maturity in 1913. Each story in
this edition appears in a new, authoritative text based on the
manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs and early printings
drawn from libraries and private collections in England, Italy and
America. All the stories have thus been stripped of the layers of
errors introduced by typists, editors and printers in their
previous publication. John Worthen's introduction sets out the
composition and publication history of each story, and gives a full
account of the context in which it was created. A textual apparatus
records all variant readings and explanatory notes explain
allusions, dialect forms and foreign words.
D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love - 'the beginning of a new world', as
he called it - suffered in the course of its revision,
transcription, and publication some of the most spectacular damage
ever inflicted upon one of his books. Until now no text of Women in
Love has ever been published which is faithful to all of Lawrence's
revisions. This edition, edited by scholars in England and America,
clears the text of literally thousands of accumulated errors
allowing its readers to read and understand the novelist's work as
he himself created it. The edition includes the 'Foreword' Lawrence
wrote in 1919 and two preliminary and discarded chapters which have
attracted widespread critical and biographical discussion. The
introduction gives a full history of the novel's composition,
revision, publication and reception, and notes explain allusions
and references; the textual apparatus records all variants between
the base-text and the first printed editions.
D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love - 'the beginning of a new world', as
he called it - suffered in the course of its revision,
transcription, and publication some of the most spectacular damage
ever inflicted upon one of his books. Until now no text of Women in
Love has ever been published which is faithful to all of Lawrence's
revisions. This edition, edited by scholars in England and America,
clears the text of literally thousands of accumulated errors
allowing its readers to read and understand the novelist's work as
he himself created it. The edition includes the 'Foreword' Lawrence
wrote in 1919 and two preliminary and discarded chapters which have
attracted widespread critical and biographical discussion. The
introduction gives a full history of the novel's composition,
revision, publication and reception, and notes explain allusions
and references; the textual apparatus records all variants between
the base-text and the first printed editions.
Worthen provides a substantial introduction to Lawrence's The Lost Girl, tracing the novel's development from rough drafts through publication and censorship. Included in this edition is a hitherto unpublished version of the opening chapter.
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The Plays (Paperback)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by Hans-Wilhelm Schwarze, John Worthen
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This first complete edition of Lawrence's plays contains eight
full-length plays and two fragments. Six of the plays - A Collier's
Friday Night, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The Merry-go-Round, The
Married Man, The Fight for Barbara and The Daughter-in-Law - were
written between 1909 and 1913, the period when Lawrence was
establishing himself as a writer. They are arguably among his very
best early work. Yet Lawrence never saw a play of his own on the
stage. Only two were performed in his lifetime, and only three were
published: the play often regarded as his best, The
Daughter-in-Law, remaining unpublished until 1965. Up to now, the
plays have existed only in faulty or incomplete texts; this
edition, drawn from Lawrence's own surviving manuscripts and
typescripts, makes it possible for the first time to read and to
stage Lawrence's plays as he wrote them. Published in two volumes.
First published in 1923, this anthology provides a cross-section of Lawrence's writing on American literature. It includes landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. The volume offers the final 1923 version of the text in a newly corrected and uncensored form, and earlier (often very different) versions of many of the essays, and other materials (including four versions of Lawrence's pioneering essay on Whitman).
The First 'Women in Love' is one of Lawrence's greatest works, and
is the only full length work of fiction which he completed between
The Rainbow and the extensively revised Women in Love. It is a
piece of fiction generated in the England, and the Europe, of the
First World War. Publishers were alarmed by the fate of his
previous novel The Rainbow and The First 'Women in Love' was
rejected by every publisher who saw it. As a result it is a novel
whose very existence as an independent text has been ignored, and
which has not been published until now. The First 'Women in Love'
shares much of its material with Women in Love, but its central
relationships are dissimilar, and the ending radically different.
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