The American Lawrence - Hardcover

Jenkins, Lee M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813060508 ISBN 13: 9780813060507

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2015

Although he is frequently perceived as a distinctly English author, in this study D. H. Lawrence is reevaluated as a creator and critic of American literature as well. From 1922-1925, during his "savage pilgrimage" in Mexico and New Mexico, he completed the core of what this book terms his "American oeuvre"--including his major volume of criticism, Studies in Classic American Literature. Lee Jenkins portrays Lawrence as a transatlantic writer whose significant body of work embraces and adapts both English and American traditions and innovations.The American Lawrence looks at the modernist writer's experiences in the Americas and his fascination with indigenous culture. It illustrates how Lawrence played an important role in the formation of American literary criticism and the American literary canon. It also shows how Lawrence creatively employs the generic conventions of classic American fiction in his own work. Reassessing Lawrence's relationship to American modernism and his American literary contemporaries, Jenkins offers new insights into the literary exchange between America and Europe.

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Review:

"An arresting book. . . .both imaginatively and geographically wide-ranging. . . .[and] essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in Lawrence, Anglo-American literary history and the transnational."--Irish Journal of American Studies

About the Author:

Lee M. Jenkins is senior lecturer in English at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression and Wallace Stevens: Rage for Order.

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