D. H. Larence's Non-Fiction Art, Thought and Genre [Paperback]

This is the first book devoted entirely to Lawrence's nonfictional writings.David Ellis and Howard Mills challenge the automatic relegation to secondary status suffered by the works included here and suggest a radical reassessment of Lawrence's literary profile of how his writings relate to one another and of where his greatest power and originality lie.David Ellis and Howard Mills challenge the automatic relegation to secondary status suffered by the works included here and suggest a radical reassessment of Lawrence's literary profile of how his writings relate to one another and of where his greatest power and originality lie.This is the first book devoted entirely to Lawrence's nonfictional writings. It focuses on a selection of representative texts, each of which is placed in an appropriate literary or historical context. These include the 'Study of Thomas Hardy', the two books about the Unconscious, the travel-writing - primarily Twilight in Italy and Sea and Sardinia - the largely autobiographical 'Introduction to Memoirs of the Foreign Legion by M. M' and the late 'thoughts in verse' called Pansies. David Ellis and Howard Mills challenge the automatic relegation to secondary status suffered by these works in the past and suggest a radical reassessment of Lawrence's literary profile of how his writings relate to one another and of where his greatest power and originality lie.Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'Slightly philosophicalish, mostly about Hardy': 'Study of Thomas Hardy' Howard Mills; 2. 'Full of philosophising and struggling to show things real': Twilight in Italy Howard Mills; 3. Poetry and science in the psychology books David Ellis; 4. Here and now in Sardinia: the art of Lawrence's travel writing David Ellis; 5. 'My best single piece of writing': 'Introduction to Memoirs of the Foreign Legion by M. M.' Howard Mills; 6. Verse or worse: the place of 'pansies' in Lawrence's poetry David Ellis; Notes; Index.