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During the immediate postwar years, says Granofsky (English, McMaster U.), British novelist D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) envisaged a revolution in the hierarchical organization of English society based on several doctrines from 19th-century evolutionary theory. Granovsky admits that focusing on some of Lawrence's worst work does not do him justice and acknowledges that there are more dimensions to the works than those he addresses. Distributed in the US by Cornell University Press Services. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Granofsky shows that Lawrence's deliberate use of Darwinian elements in his narrative strategy occurred at a time when he was increasingly concerned about survival, both personally, due to illness, and as an artist. The result in his fiction is a subtext in which his anxieties are projected onto female characters and the evolution of his writing is frustrated by unresolved emotional conflicts. Through new readings of the major fiction of Lawrence's transitional period, Granofsky demonstrates that Lawrence's deterioration as a writer and the misogyny of his later work was primarily the result of a deliberate effort on his part to move the ideological yardsticks of his fiction.
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