An introduction to a work generally considered Lawrence’s greatest novel, and by some readers, the greatest English novel of the twentieth century. Part 1: The context of Women in Love. General Introduction; Lawrence’s early life and work; The composition of Women in Love; Women in Love and the First World War; People, Places and Libel Threats; Sexuality; Class. Part 2: Artistic Influences and Strategies. Tradition and Experiment; Thomas Hardy and the Russian Novel; ‘You mustn’t look in my novel for the old stable ego of the character’; Modernist movements: Futurism, Imagism, Expressionism; Morality and the Novel. Part 3: Reading Women in Love. Part 4: Reception. Part 5: Bibliography.
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Oct 4, 2022
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