D H Lawrence (Philosophy and the Environment) - Hardcover

LaChapelle, Dolores

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574410075 ISBN 13: 9781574410075

Publisher: University of North Texas Press,U.S., 2006

Synopsis

The importance of the work of D. H. Lawrence in the field of ecology and environmental awareness has been largely overlooked. LaChapelle argues that Lawrence deserves to be ranked alongside Thoreau and Muir. Beginning with the effect of Lawrence's childhood near Sherwood Forest, LaChapelle explores the intense relationship Lawrence had with all of nature so that his senses were as fully developed as those of a primitive hunter.

About this title

About the Author

Dolores LaChapelle formed the Way of the Mountain Learning Center in Silverton, Colorado, in 1975 and served as its director. Together with George Sessions, she presented the first academic papers ever given on Deep Ecology. She is the author of Earth Festivals, Earth Wisdom, Sacred Land Sacred Sex, and Deep Powder Snow.

From the Back Cover

This book will change the way you think about D. H. Lawrence. Critics have tried to define him as a Georgian poet, an imagist, a vitalist, a follower of the French symbolists, a romantic or a transcendentalist, but none of the usual labels fit. The same theme runs through all his work, beginning with his very first novel, The White Peacock, and ending with the last line of his final book, Apocalypse. Always it is nature. He said this over and over again, and no one - especially those who feared the "old ways" of harmonious and balanced living on the earth - understood him.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of North Texas Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574410075
• ISBN 13: 9781574410075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 223