“I have no home, that’s why I come”: an Anthropocene Reading of Lawrence the Unaccommodated Writer
Introduction“I am like a plant, I can only grow in my own soil,” says the Jessie Chambers character in the story “The Shades of Spring.” Her self-possession in her home soil is contrasted with the Lawrence character’s “success” in town having come at the cost of leaving what he now thinks of as his...
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Études Lawrenciennes
2024
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| Riassunto: | Introduction“I am like a plant, I can only grow in my own soil,” says the Jessie Chambers character in the story “The Shades of Spring.” Her self-possession in her home soil is contrasted with the Lawrence character’s “success” in town having come at the cost of leaving what he now thinks of as his past in “Arcady” (PO 106). Such were Lawrence’s thoughts in December 1911 as he lay recovering from pneumonia in Croydon writing “The Shades of Spring.” At the beginning of his writing career Lawr... |
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