The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts
Edited by Catherine Brown, Susan Reid
- Offers the most comprehensive assessment yet of Lawrence’s relationship with the arts
- Places Lawrence in the context of the latest developments in fields including life writing, posthumanism, queer theory, and technology studies
- Considers Lawrence's continued reception in other people's art, and the nature of his relevance today
This book includes twenty-eight innovative chapters by specialists from across the arts, reassessing 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 enquiry 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.
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Colour Plates, Figures and Musical Examples
Introduction - Catherine Brown and Susan Reid
PART I: AESTHETICS
1. The Idea of the Aesthetic - Michael Bell
2. Gesamtkunstwerk - Susan Reid
3. Romanticism, Decadence, History - Vincent Sherry
4. National and Racial Aesthetics - Peter Childs
5. Traditional Aesthetics - Julianne Newmark
6. Translation - Stefania Michelucci
7. Biblical Aesthetics - Shirley Bricout
8. Historiography and Life Writing - Andrew Harrison
9. Queer Aesthetics - Hugh Stevens
10. Politics and Art - Howard J. Booth
11. Popular Culture - Gemma Moss
12. Technology - David Trotter
PART II: AESTHETIC FORMS
SECTION 1: VERBAL ARTS
13. The Idea of the Novel - Keith Cushman
14. Practitioner Criticism: Poetry - Holly A. Laird
15. Revising and Rewriting - Paul Eggert
SECTION 2: PERFORMANCE ARTS
16. Performance - John Worthen
17. Drama and the Dramatic - Jeremy Tambling
18. Music - Susan Reid
19. Dance - Susan Jones
SECTION 3: VISUAL ARTS
20. Practitioner Criticism: Painting - Jeff Wallace
21. Book Design - Jonathan Long22. Sculpture - Jane Costin
23. Architecture - Sarah Edwards
24. Clothing and Jewellery - Judith Ruderman
PART III: LAWRENCE IN OTHERS’ ART
25. Lawrence in Biofiction - Lee M. Jenkins
26. Lawrence set to Music - Bethan Jones
27. Lawrence and Twenty-First-Century Film - Louis K. Greiff
28. D. H. Lawrence: Icon - Catherine Brown
Notes on Contributors
Index
A fresh look at the iconic writer. [...] Recommended.
This rich volume allows us to visualize Lawrence anew, and to reassess a very familiar writer through a series of newly recovered contexts.
The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (EEWN) has undoubtedly established an editorial standard which raises the bar for all new critical editions of Walter Scott's work.
The fascinating and illuminating essays in this expertly curated volume open up new ways of understanding and appreciating the work of one of the most original and important of twentieth-century writers. Individual essays open up Lawrence's deep engagement with central debates about aesthetics and, in his roles as critic-practitioner, with the range of the arts and artistic production. A superb collection.
The Edinburgh Companion in particular offers thought-provoking reflections on how Lawrence’s aesthetics and heuristic approach to writing have shaped and continue to shape his legacy in both scholarship and popular culture.
