ABSTRACT

Lawrence clearly enjoys being a girl. Lawrence may have clearly enjoyed being a girl, but he also wrote an essay called On Being a Man. He cannot only be a man because he also enjoys being a girl, whether the girl is one of the sadistic seers people have already encountered or one of the female masochists whom feminism has preferred to analyse in Lawrence's work. Tony Pinkney's brilliant discussion of Lawrence's work as the literary realisation of the architecture of modernism touches on the role of nomadism in a variety of modern aesthetics. The sexuality of Lawrence's texts is not straight forward. Lawrence is not simply a writer of sexuality because of the element in his work which provoked his notorious clashes with censorship law. Lawrence's books are magic lanterns, within which the dark self enjoys the brief day of visibility, without finally believing in any one thing.