D. H. Lawrence and 'Difference': Postcoloniality and the Poetry

Amit Chaudhuri

D. H. Lawrence and 'Difference'Postcoloniality and the Poetry of the Present\nAuthor(s): Amit Chaudhuri, Tom Paulin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780199260522, 978-0199260522\nSynopsis\nThis important study from the prizewinning novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri explores D. H. Lawrence's position as a 'foreigner' in the English canon. Focusing on the poetry, Chaudhuri examines how Lawrence's works, and Lawrence himself, have been read, and misread, in terms of their 'difference.' In contrast to the Leavisite project of placing Lawrence in the English 'great tradition,' this study demonstrates how Lawrence's writing brings into question the notion of 'Englishness' itself. It also shows how Lawrence's aesthetic sets him apart radically from both his Modernist contemporaries and his Romantic forbears. \n\nThe starting-point of this enquiry into Lawrentian 'difference' is, for the purposes of this study'