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Eugene Goodheart
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Routledge
Published
September 2005
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Author
Eugene Goodheart
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Paperback / softback
Publisher
Routledge
Published
September 2005
£45.23
Free UK Delivery
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D.H. Lawrence : The Utopian Vision
Today's Price £45.23
The dominant view of D.H. Lawrence's work has long been that of F. R. Leavis, who confined Lawrence within an exclusively ethical and artistic tradition. In D.H. Lawrence: The Utopian Vision, Eugene Goodheart widens the context in which Lawrence should be understood to include European as well as English writers - Blake, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud among others.
Goodheart shows that the characteristic impulse of Lawrence's principal discovery was the bodily or physical life that he believed man had once possessed in his pre-civilized past and must now fully recover if future civilized life is possible. Goodheart's argument fully engages the paradoxes of Lawrence's writing. He is at once the last great representative of the moral tradition of the English novel and of the English Protestant imagination and a novelist without precedent, a diabolist in the service of the dark gods. He rejects the claims of society, while simultaneously lamenting the thwarting of the societal instinct. The oppositions and paradoxes in the work are the expression of a single, not always coherent, revolutionary imagination. D.H. Lawrence: The Utopian Vision provides a rigorous and critical analysis of the ideological character of Lawrence's novels and essays, in particular the effect of his utopianism on his views of nature, myth, and religious experience, while responding to his aesthetic achievement. Goodheart's Lawrence is a prophetic artist whose vision is at once inspiring and dangerous.
In the new introduction to the book, Goodheart reflects upon the vicissitudes of Lawrence's reputation since the sixties when the book first appeared and his relevance to the concerns of our own time.
Author
Eugene Goodheart
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Routledge
Published
September 2005
Weight
318g
Dimensions
153 x 229 x 13 mm
ISBN
9781412805001
ISBN-10
1412805007
Eden Code
5294478
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Author/Creator: Eugene Goodheart
ISBN: 9781412805001
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: September 2005
Weight: 318g
Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 13 mm
Eden Code: 5294478