D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider - Hardcover

Worthen, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582433410 ISBN 13: 9781582433417

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2005

Synopsis

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of Lawrence's death, this is a fresh and clear-sighted new portrait of one of the 20th century's most radical, brilliant and misunderstood writers.

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Review:

"A stylishly written, smoothly developed analysis of Lawrence's conflicted psyche."

"A intimate and compelling portrait...brings to light the many fascinating aspects of Lawrence's life."

"A fine, cogent and carefully reasoned book, and surely a major contribution to contemporary Lawrence scholarship."

"Worthen's single-volume life has the merit of pursuing a theme detectable in every phase of Lawrence's life: his perpetually renewed isolation."

"Lawrence blazes like a figure of myth from the documentary record of his existence. We are with Lawrence every step of the way as he rants and tramps around the world, quarrelling, moaning, scrimping and saving, writing and writing."

About the Author:

John Worthen taught at universities in America and Wales before becoming Professor of D. H. Lawrence Studies at the University of Nottingham, where he remains Emeritus Professor. His career as a Lawrence's biographer began in the 1980s and culminated in the celebrated D H Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912, the first part of the three-volume Cambridge biography (CUP, 1991-8).

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1582433410
• ISBN 13: 9781582433417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 518