Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts

D. H. Lawrence's wide-ranging engagements across the verbal, visual, and performance arts are assessed in this comprehensive Companion, which offers twenty-eight innovative chapters by specialists from across the arts. It reassesses Lawrence's relationship to aesthetic categories and specific art forms in their historical and critical contexts, presenting a new picture of Lawrence as an artist. The Companion includes original research on topics such as Lawrence's politics in his art, his representations of technology, his practice of revising and rewriting, and the relationship between his criticism and creation of prose, poetry, and painting. It also makes a strong case for Lawrence's continuing relevance and aesthetic power, with case studies of his afterlives in biofiction, cinema, musical settings, and portraiture.

Format: Hardback
Length: 540 pages
Publication date: 31 October 2020
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

D. H. Lawrence's extensive involvement in the verbal, visual, and performance arts is examined in this book, which provides the most thorough evaluation of his relationship with the arts to date. Lawrence is placed in the context of recent developments in fields such as life writing, posthumanism, queer theory, and technology studies in this book. It also examines Lawrence's ongoing influence on other people's art and his significance today. The book includes twenty-eight original chapters by experts from a variety of artistic fields, which reevaluate Lawrence's relationship to aesthetic categories and specific art forms in their historical and critical contexts. A new picture of Lawrence as an artist emerges, expanding from traditional areas of inquiry in prose and poetry into the fields of drama, painting, sculpture, music, architecture, dance, historiography, life writing, and queer aesthetics. The Companion presents original research on topics such as Lawrence's politics in his art, his representations of technology, his practice of revising and rewriting, and the relationship between his criticism and creation of prose, poetry, and painting. This interdisciplinary Companion also makes a strong case for Lawrence's continuing relevance and aesthetic power, as represented by case studies of his afterlives in biofiction, cinema, musical settings, and portraiture.

Weight: 1030g
Dimension: 177 x 251 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474456623