Nettling Authority: Lawrence’s Reaction to Censorship in his Late Poetry

Throughout his writing career, D.H. Lawrence was plagued by censorship. The suppression of his novel The Rainbow in November 1915 marked the beginning of a process that would culminate in the battle over Lady Chatterley’s Lover: a novel riven with controversy as a result of its sexually explicit co...

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Publicado no:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence,
Autor principal: Jones, Bethan
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: Études Lawrenciennes 2014
Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Resumo:Throughout his writing career, D.H. Lawrence was plagued by censorship. The suppression of his novel The Rainbow in November 1915 marked the beginning of a process that would culminate in the battle over Lady Chatterley’s Lover: a novel riven with controversy as a result of its sexually explicit content and the breaking of class taboos. Yet it was an event subsequent to this clash with a resistant publishing industry over his last novel that will be the focus of this article. On 14 June 1929...