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John Thomas and Lady Jane
A Lady Chatterley Precursor of Desire, Class Conflict, and Awakening on an English Country Estate
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Sharp Ink Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 32Z444Z
EAN: 9788028376086
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Beschreibung
John Thomas and Lady Jane presents Lawrence's bold intermediate version of the story that became Lady Chatterley's Lover: the encounter between an aristocratic woman trapped in a sterile marriage and a gamekeeper whose physical vitality promises emotional and social renewal. Less polished than the final novel yet often more exploratory, it joins frank eroticism to pastoral lyricism, social critique, and symbolic argument. Written against the modernist backdrop of postwar disillusion, industrial decay, and collapsing class certainties, the book reveals Lawrence testing how language might restore body, tenderness, and instinct to a mechanized civilization. D. H. Lawrence, son of a Nottinghamshire miner and a schoolteacher, repeatedly returned to conflicts between class, intellect, sexuality, and nature. His own Midlands background, fragile health, exile, censorship battles, and suspicion of industrial modernity shaped his imagination. In this manuscript, his personal mythology of bodily truth and intimate communion appears in unusually transparent formation. Readers interested in Lawrence, modernism, or the genealogy of Lady Chatterley's Lover will find this volume indispensable. It is best approached not as a mere draft, but as a compelling work in its own right.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- D H Lawrence
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2024
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 188