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"While the dehumanizing effects of technology, modernity, and industrialization have been widely recognized in D. H. Lawrence's works, no book-length study has been dedicated to this topic. This collection of newly commissioned essays by a cast of international scholars fills a genuine void and investigates Lawrence's peculiar relationship with modern technology and modernity in its many and varied aspects. Addressing themes such as pastoral vs. industrial, mining, war, robots, ecocriticism, technologies of the self, film, poetic devices of technology, entertainment, and many others, these essays help to reevaluate Lawrence's complicated standing within the modernist literary tradition and reveal the true theoretical wealth of a writer whose whole life and work, according to T.S. Eliot, 'was an assertion of what the modern world has lost'."--Bloomsbury Publishing List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Michael Bell (University of Warwick, UK) -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Indrek Männiste (University of Tartu, Estonia) -- 1. D. H. Lawrence's Long Passage from a Rural to an Industrial World -- Nick Ceramella (University of Trento, Italy) -- 2. "Colliers is a discontented lot": "The Miner at Home" in the Nation and the 1912 National Coal Strike -- Annalise Grice (Nottingham Trent University, UK) -- 3. D. H. Lawrence among the Early Modern Bohemians -- Katherine Toy Miller (Angelo State University, USA) -- 4. D. H. Lawrence and "The Machine Incarnate": Robots Among the "Nettles" -- Tina Ferris (Independent Writing and Editing Professional and D.H. Lawrence scholar, USA) -- 5. "Men No More Than the Subjective Material of the Machine": D. H. Lawrence, Machinery and War-time Psychology -- Andrew Harrison (University of Nottingham, UK) -- 6. To Produce, or Not to Produce, That Is the Question: Technology, Democracy and War in Women in Love -- Gaku Iwai (Konan University, Japan) -- 7. Hierarchy, Beauty, and Freedom: D. H. Lawrence's Response to Techno-Industrial Modernity -- Colin D. Pearce (Clemson University, USA) -- 8. "The Art of Living": D. H. Lawrence's Technologies of Self -- Jeff Wallace (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK)I -- 9. Engineering Away Humanity: Lawrence on Technology and Mental Consciousness in Lady Chatterley's Loverand Pansies -- Andrew Keese (Texas Tech University, USA) -- 10. Lawrence's Allotropic "Gladiatorial": Resisting the Mechanization of the Human in Women in Love -- Thalia Trigoni (University of Cambridge, UK) -- 11. Green Lawrence?: Consciousness, Ecology and Poetry -- Fiona Becket (University of Leeds, UK) -- 12. D. H. Lawrence and Film: Reconsidering Fidelity in Ken Russell's Women in Love -- Earl G. Ingersoll (College at Brockport, USA) -- 13. Poetics of Technology: D. H. Lawrence and the Well-Tempered Counterpoint -- Indrek Männiste (University of Tartu, Estonia) -- 14. Trains in D. H. Lawrence's Creative Writing -- Helen Baron (Independent Scholar and Editor, UK) -- 15. On Entertainment: The Lassitude of Lawrence's Dead Novel -- Dominic Jaeckle (Goldsmiths College, UK) -- Bibliography -- Index.
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