Overview

Winner of the DHLSNA Biennial Award for a Book by a Newly Published Scholar Exploring draft manuscripts, alternative texts and publishers’ typescripts, The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence reveals new insights into the writings and writing practices of one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Focusing on the most productive years of Lawrence’s writing life, between 1909 and 1926 – a time that saw the writing of major novels such as Women in Love and the controversial The Plumed Serpent, as well as his first major short story collection – this book is the first to apply analytical methods from the field of genetic criticism to the archives of this canonical modernist author. The book unearths and re-evaluates a variety of themes including the body, death, love, trauma, depression, memory, the sublime, selfhood, and endings, and includes original transcriptions as well as reproductions from the manuscripts themselves. By charting Lawrence’s writing processes, the book also highlights how the very distinction between ‘process’ and ‘product’ became a central theme in his work.

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Author:   Dr Elliott Morsia (Independent Scholar, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9781350139688

ISBN 10:   1350139688
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 October 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Series Editor Preface List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations and Note on the Text Introduction Part One: Critical Frameworks Chapter One: Anglo-American Traditions, Genetic Criticism, and Recent Developments Part Two: 'Odour of Chrysanthemums' (1909-1914) Chapter Two: Setting the Scene Part Three: Women in Love (1913-1921) Chapter Three: Re-Evaluating the Compositional History Chapter Four: Early Fragments and Multiple Drafts Chapter Five: Genetic Dialogism in the Notebooks Chapter Six: Genetic Dialogism in the Typescripts Part Four: The Plumed Serpent (1923-1926) Chapter Seven: Criticism, Composition, and Writing Depression Chapter Eight: Writing an Ending Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Index

Reviews

In this fascinating and careful study, Morsia explores Lawrence's multi-layered and reflexive practice of writing, a practice in which received notions of what it means to create and finish narrative are constantly questioned. The dialogic approach that Morsia shows is central to Lawrence's technique, with its reroutings, rewritings and serial revisions, opens up new perspectives not only on his work but also on that of other modernist and postmodernist authors. This rich and rewarding book will appeal not only to students of Lawrence but to anyone interested in the practice of writing. * Darian Leader, psychoanalyst and author *

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Elliott Morsia is an Independent Scholar and former Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

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