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The American Lawrence

Name: The American Lawrence
Author: Lee M. Jenkins
ISBN: 9780813068374

by Lee M. Jenkins

Published by: University Press of Florida

Reassessing Lawrence’s relationship to American modernism and his American literary contemporaries, Jenkins offers new insights into the literary exchange between America and Europe.

172 Pages6.00 × 9.002 b&w photos, notes, bibliography, index

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Although he is frequently perceived as a distinctly English author, in this study D. H. Lawrence is reevaluated as a creator and critic of American literature as well. From 1922–1925, during his “savage pilgrimage” in Mexico and New Mexico, he completed the core of what this book terms his “American oeuvre”—including his major volume of criticism, Studies in Classic American Literature. Lee Jenkins portrays Lawrence as a transatlantic writer whose significant body of work embraces and adapts both English and American traditions and innovations.

The American Lawrence looks at the modernist writer’s experiences in the Americas and his fascination with indigenous culture. It illustrates how Lawrence played an important role in the formation of American literary criticism and the American literary canon. It also shows how Lawrence creatively employs the generic conventions of classic American fiction in his own work. Reassessing Lawrence’s relationship to American modernism and his American literary contemporaries, Jenkins offers new insights into the literary exchange between America and Europe.

Lee M. Jenkins is professor of English at University College Cork. She is the author of The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression and Wallace Stevens: Rage for Order and the coeditor of Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry, A History of Modernist Poetry, and The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry.

“Elegantly and beautifully rendered, with much to engage the reader. … An important and timely contribution to debates about Lawrence and spirit of place, and the locations(s) of modernism.”—Review of English Studies
“Intelligent, well-focused criticism [that] manages to remain both historicist and revisionist in its ambition and organization.”—English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920
“A much-needed historicization of Lawrence within American studies.”—Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies
“Distinguishes itself through its concision, its keen attention to trends of cultural theory emerging simultaneously to Lawrence’s writing in America, and its effective situation of Lawrence’s American writing vis-à-vis critical theories in American studies today.”—D. H. Lawrence Review
“This study sees Lawrence as a non-American who nevertheless wrote American literature, especially during the 1920s period when he lived in and wrote about New Mexico.”—American Literature
“An arresting book. … Provides a holistic appraisal of [Lawrence’s] American writing … Essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in Lawrence, Anglo-American literary history, and the transnational.”—Irish Journal of American Studies

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction. D. H. Lawrence, Americano

Chapter 1. Hands-up, America!: Studies in Classic American Literature

Chapter 2. Under Our Home Eye: Lawrence and American Modernism

Chapter 3. Tales of Out Here: “St. Mawr,” “The Princess,” and “The Woman Who Rode Away”

Conclusion. Wilful Women: Lawrence’s Three Fates and Georgia O’Keeffe

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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