The American Lawrence
By: Lee M. Jenkins
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780813060507
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; English Authors; Biography; American literature; History and criticism; Modernism (Literature)
Description: Although contemporary scholarship views D. H. Lawrence as a distinctly English author, Lee M. Jenkins argues for a reassessment of his relationship to American modernism and his American literary contemporaries, including "Studies in Classic American Literature" and "The Plumed Serpent."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-143) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: D. H. Lawrence, Americano; title: "Hands-up, America!": Studies in Classic American literature; title: "Under our home eye": Lawrence and American modernism; title: "Tales of out here": "St. Mawr," "The princess," and "The woman who rode away"; title: Conclusion. Wilful women: Lawrence's three fates and Georgia O'Keeffe.