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Modernism's most contentious rivals, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, were polar opposites--stylistically, personally, and professionally--yet their lives, works, and careers bear striking similarities. They shared the same literary agent, published in the same literary magazines, fought legal battles against censorship, and were both pirated by Samuel Roth. This is the first book to explore the resonances between the two writers, shattering the historical silence between Joyceans and Lawrentians. The parallels run deep between these epic figures of the literary canon, and this volume explores the classic modernist paradoxes shared by the two writers. Both were at once syncretists and shatterers, bourgeois cosmopolitans, prudish libertines, displaced nostalgists, and rebels against their native lands. Considering mutual themes such as gender, class, horseracing, nature, religion, exile, and modernism's fascination with Egyptology, these essays highlight the many intersections in the major novels and short fiction of Joyce and Lawrence. Modernists at Odds is a long overdue extended comparison of two of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century.

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Author:   Matthew J. Kochis ,  Heather L. Lusty
Publisher:   University Press of Florida
Imprint:   University Press of Florida
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.382kg
ISBN:  

9780813068282

ISBN 10:   0813068282
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   30 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Figures Foreword Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Chronologies Introduction Heather L. Lusty 1. Lady Chatterly's Lover and Ulysses Zack Bowen 2. Love, Bodies, and Nature in Lady Chatterly's Lover and Ulysses Margot Norris 3. The Odd Couple Constructing the ""New Man"": Bloom and Mellors in Ulysses and Lady Chatterley's Lover Earl G. Ingersoll 4. The End of Sacrifice: Joyce's ""The Dead"" and Lawrence's ""The Man Who Died"" Gerald Doherty 5. The Isis Effect: How Joyce and Lawrence Revitalize Christianity through Foreignization Martin R. Brick 6. ""In Europe they usually mention us together"": Joyce, Lawrence, and the Little Magazines Louise Kane 7. Lawrence and Joyce in T. S. Eliot's Criterion Miscellany Series Eleni Loukopoulou 8. An Encounter with the Real: A Lacanian Motif in Joyce's ""The Dead"" and Lawrence's ""The Shadow in the Rose Garden"" Hidenaga Arai 9. Masochism and Marriage in The Rainbow and Ulysses Johannes Hendrikus Burgers and Jennifer Mitchell 10. That Long Kiss: Comparing Joyce and Lawrence Enda Duffy 11. ""Result of the Rockinghorse Races"": The Ironic Culture of Racing in Ulysses and ""The Rocking-Horse Winner"" Carl F. Miller List of Contributors Index"

Reviews

"Challenges the unhelpful polarization of Lawrence and Joyce in much twentieth-century literary criticism and offers intriguing alternatives to what is surely a reductive approach to the achievements of both writers.""--Fiona Becket, author of The Complete Critical Guide to D. H. Lawrence ""A groundbreaking collection. Sexuality, censorship, publishing, and rivalry are all treated with a fresh eye; cutting-edge archival research is brought to the fore; and new perspectives such as ecocriticism are among the many highlights.""--Susan Mooney, author of The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality"

Challenges the unhelpful polarization of Lawrence and Joyce in much twentieth-century literary criticism and offers intriguing alternatives to what is surely a reductive approach to the achievements of both writers. --Fiona Becket, author of The Complete Critical Guide to D. H. Lawrence A groundbreaking collection. Sexuality, censorship, publishing, and rivalry are all treated with a fresh eye; cutting-edge archival research is brought to the fore; and new perspectives such as ecocriticism are among the many highlights. --Susan Mooney, author of The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality

Author Information

Matthew J. Kochis is an independent scholar and former Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Digital Humanities at Dickinson College. Heather L. Lusty is Assistant Professor-in-Residence in English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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