D. H. Lawrence: A Reference Companion

by Paul Poplawski

Overview

D.H. Lawrence remains one of the most popular and studied authors of the 20th century. This book is a comprehensive but easy to use reference guide to Lawrence's life, works, and critical reception. The volume has been systematically structured to convey a coherent overall sense of Lawrence's achievement and critical reputation, but it is also designed to enable the reader who may be interested in only one aspect of Lawrence's career, perhaps even in only one of his novels or stories, to find relevant information quickly and easily without having to read other parts of the text.

The book begins with an original biography by John Worthen, one of the world's foremost authorities on Lawrence's life and work. The chapters that follow provide separate entries for all of Lawrence's works, except for individual poems and paintings, with critical summaries, discussions of characters, and details of settings. There is also a complete overview of Lawrence and film, with the most complete listing available of film adaptations of his works and of criticism relating to them. Each section of the book provides comprehensive primary and secondary bibliographical data, including citations for the most recent scholarly studies. Maps and chronologies further trace Lawrence's travels and his development over time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313286377
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/24/1996
Series:	Contributions to the Study of
Pages:	744
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.75(d)
Lexile:	1080L (what's this?)

About the Author

PAUL POPLAWSKI is Director of Studies at Vaughan College, University of Leicester. He has taught widely in 19th and 20th century literature and specializes in D. H. Lawrence, Modernism, and Jane Austen. He recently published a revised 3rd edition of Warren Robets' A Bibliography of D. H. Lawrence (2001). He is also the author of D. H. Lawrence: A Reference Companion (Greenwood, 1996), and A Jane Austen Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 1998), and editor of Writing the Body in D. H. Lawrence (Greenwood, 2001).

Table of Contents

Preface
How to Use This Book
Life
A Biography by John Worthen
Chronology 1: The Life and Major Works of D.H. Lawrence
Biographical Scholarship and Criticism
Social Context: Education, Coalmining, Reform
Geographical Context: Travels and Places
Works
Novels
Short Fiction
Poetry
Plays
Other Works
Critical Reception
A General Guide to Lawrence Criticism and Scholarship
Varieties of Lawrence Criticism
The Popular Image: Lawrence and Film
Reference Bibliographies
Indexes

Editorial Reviews

A comprehensive reference guide to the life, works, and critical reception of D. H. Lawrence. The first part provides a narrative biography of Lawrence, a chronology of Lawrence's life and works, a bibliography of biographical scholarship and criticism on Lawrence, and chronologies on aspects of his sociohistoric background and travels. The second part contains an entry on nearly every text Lawrence produced, except individual poems and paintings, organized by genre and including a list of characters and a critical summary. The third part provides a guide to essential sources in Lawrentian scholarship, seven bibliographies organized by type of approach, and two essays addressing Lawrence's image represented on screen. Meticulously indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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