 | D.H. Lawrence and Survival: Darwinism in the Fiction of the Transitional Period Subjects: Lawrence D.H. (David Herbert) 1885–1930 -- Knowledge -- Evolution (Biology); Survival in literature; Darwin Charles 1809–1882 -- Influence; Lawrence D.H. (David Herbert) 1885–1930 -- Criticism and interpretation; 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. Granofsky Ronald : Ronald Granofsky is professor emeritus in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University and the author of D.H. Lawrence and Survival: Darwinism in the Fiction of the Transitional Period. |
