Books about D. H. Lawrence: Sexual Crisis

Books about D.H. Lawrence

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: In dieser Seminararbeit wird die Darstellung von Sexualität in der Literatur des englischen Modernismus näher betrachtet. Anhand des Romans 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' von D.H. Lawrence wird

In this study of the Lady Chatterley novels, Nakabayashi pays particular attention to D.H. Lawrence's language for the feelings and for the life of the unselfconscious, sexual body. Examining and analysing the novels' particular linguistic revisions reveals the textual impulse behind Lawrence's original conception and its subsequent change and development.

David Holbrook has spent many years teaching D. H. Lawrence's works to students, while Lawrence has been a primary influence in Holbrook's novels and poetry. By degrees, however, he came to be suspicious of Lawrence's attempts to "teach us to be men and women," especially in the field of sex.