Lawrence's England - The Major Fiction, 1913-20 (Hardcover)

Michael Black's third volume of commentary arrives at the peak of Lawrence's achievement: the fiction of the War years, 1913-20. He takes off from an analysis of Lawrence's writing method, a succession of spontaneous drafts, cumulatively rewritten into substantial structures of great complexity. Two surviving uncompleted drafts post- Sons and Lovers show him seeking for a theme, and also a method of representing consciousness.Substantial analyses of The Rainbow,The short stories in England, My England, and Women in Love take first an historical and then a contemporary account of the England Lawrence was about to leave. An important theme is the development of a post-Christian spirituality alongside the quest for a new understanding of love between men and women, and men and men. Black draws on the new Cambridge text, and editorial work on it, to provide new insights into Lawrence's writing.