Quetzalcoatl
By: D.H. Lawrence, N.H. Reeve
Contributors: Reeve, N. H., 1953-
Series: The Cambridge edition of the works of D.H. Lawrence; Cambridge edition of the works of D.H. Lawrence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9781107004078
Subjects: Serpent worship; Cults; Quetzalcoatl (Aztec deity); British; Fiction
Work titles: Plumed serpent
Description: "Quetzalcoatl was written during Lawrence's first stay in Mexico, in May and June 1923, and registers his initial responses to those aspects of Mexican landscape, religion, politics and culture which would fascinate him over the following two years. On leaving Mexico in July 1923, he described Quetzalcoatl as 'nearly finished', intending to revise it later, but in the event actually rewrote it almost completely, and it was published as The Plumed Serpent in 1926. This is the first scholarly edition of the original manuscripts and typescripts of Quetzalcoatl, and includes a record of all revisions Lawrence made in the course of writing it, detailed explanatory notes and an introduction outlining its compositional history. With the publication of this volume, all Lawrence's novels, in their first, intermediate and final versions, are now available in the Cambridge edition"--
Notes: Originally published as The plumed serpent in 1926.
Table of contents: title: General editor's preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Chronology; title: Cue-titles; title: Introduction; title: Quetzalcoatl; title: Appendix I. Deleted MS passage from Chapter III, 58:7-61:18; title: Appendix II. Deleted MS passage from Chapter VI, 130:1-135:7; title: Appendix III. Deleted MS passage from Chapter VII, 155:5-158:23; title: Appendix IV. Deleted MS passage from Chapter VII, 163:6-172:13; title: Explanatory notes; title: Textual apparatus; title: Line-end hyphenation.