The Boy in the Bush (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence) - Hardcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052130704X ISBN 13: 9780521307048

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This is the first critical edition of The Boy in the Bush, a novel whose unlikely genesis has been surrounded in mystery and the subject of claim and counter-claim. A systematic study of all the extant textual documents has revealed a process of composition and revision which qualifies the novel to be treated unequivocally as part of the Lawrence canon. At Lawrence's suggestion an Australian nurse and part-time author, Mollie Skinner (whom he had met in 1922), wrote a tale set in late nineteenth-century Western Australia about a newly-arrived young Englishman's reactions to Perth and the outback. Lawrence's complete rewriting converted her production into an ambitious, powerful novel. The reading text here established eliminates all such instances of censorship and strips away the thousands of regularisings and miscopyings introduced by typists and typesetters. Based on Lawrence's autograph manuscript the text meticulously incorporates his subsequent revisions in the typescripts and proofs.

About this title

Book Description:

Lawrence's rewriting of a tale by the part-time author Mollie Skinner, converted her production into an ambitious, powerful novel. A study of all the extant textual documents has revealed a process of composition and revision which qualifies the novel to be treated unequivocally as part of the Lawrence canon.

About the Author:

Harry T. Moore is Research Professor of English at Southern Illinois University."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 052130704X
• ISBN 13: 9780521307048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 564
• Editor: Skinner M. L., Eggert Paul