Reading D. H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene
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Anthropocene
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D. H. Lawrence
ecocriticism
environment
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nature
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- ISBN 9781399535939
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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How do the works of D. H. Lawrence speak to readers in the age of the Anthropocene? In this volume, sixteen scholars from six countries explore different answers to this question, considering Lawrence's novels, short fiction, poetry, paintings and his often-provocative polemical essays. This comprehensive survey of Lawrence's writings and artworks reveals that his familiar enquiries into human nature were always situated within the energies, large and local, of what he calls 'the cosmos' which is our shared home. Lawrence challenges his readers by his movements between cynicism and idealism, dissolution and creativity, critique and regeneration the very tensions that confront us today in the face of industrial capitalism and environmental deterioration. This revelation of Lawrence's passionate 'environmentalism' not only fills what has been described as 'a gaping hole in Lawrence studies'. It also drills down into the heart of the problems holding back an adequate response to the climate crisis by offering fundamental values for recovery.
Terry Gifford is Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University’s Research Centre for Environmental Humanities and Profesor Honorifico at the University of Alicante, Spain. A co-founder of British ecocriticism, he is the author of D. H. Lawrence, Ecofeminism and Nature (2023), Pastoral (2020), Green Voices (2011), Reconnecting With John Muir: Essays
in Post-Pastoral Practice (2006), The Joy of Climbing (2004) and Teaching A Level English Literature (with John Brown, 1989). He has also written or edited seven books on Ted Hughes, most recently Ted Hughes in Context (2018). His eighth collection of poetry is A Feast of Fools (2018). He is currently writing an ecofeminist reading of Lawrence’s short stories.
