D.H. Lawrence's Australia

The first full-length account of D. H. Lawrenceâs rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating D. H. Lawrenceâs Australia focuses on the philosophical anthropological and literary influences that informed the utopian and regenerative visions that characterise so much of Lawrenceâs work. David Game gives particular attention to the four novels and one novella published between 1920 and 1925 what Game calls Lawrenceâs 'Australian period' shedding new light on Lawrenceâs attitudes towards Australia in general and more specifically towards Australian Aborigines women and colonialism. He revisits key aspects of Lawrenceâs development as a novelist and thinker including the influence of Darwin and Lawrenceâs rejection of eugenics Christianity psychoanalysis and science. While Game concentrates on the Australian novels such as Kangaroo and The Boy in the Bush he also uncovers the Australian elements in a range of other works including Lawrenceâs last novel Lady Chatterleyâs Lover. Lawrence lived in Australia for just three months but as Game shows it played a significant role in his quest for a way of life that would enable regeneration of the individual in the face of what Lawrence saw as the moral collapse of modern industrial civilisation after the outbreak of World War I. Language: English