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      Anxiety at the Edge of Empire

      D.H. Lawrence's Australia

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      D.H. Lawrence's Australia book

      Anxiety at the Edge of Empire
      ByDavid Game
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2015
      eBook Published 1 March 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315575766
      Pages 348
      eBook ISBN 9781315575766
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Language & Literature
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      Game, D. (2015). D.H. Lawrence's Australia: Anxiety at the Edge of Empire (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315575766

      ABSTRACT

      The first full-length account of D.H. Lawrence’s rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating, D.H. Lawrence’s Australia focuses on the philosophical, anthropological and literary influences that informed the utopian and regenerative visions that characterise so much of Lawrence’s work. David Game gives particular attention to the four novels and one novella published between 1920 and 1925, what Game calls Lawrence’s 'Australian period,' shedding new light on Lawrence’s attitudes towards Australia in general and, more specifically, towards Australian Aborigines, women and colonialism. He revisits key aspects of Lawrence’s development as a novelist and thinker, including the influence of Darwin and Lawrence’s rejection of eugenics, Christianity, psychoanalysis and science. While Game concentrates on the Australian novels such as Kangaroo and The Boy in the Bush, he also uncovers the Australian elements in a range of other works, including Lawrence’s last novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Lawrence lived in Australia for just three months, but as Game shows, it played a significant role in his quest for a way of life that would enable regeneration of the individual in the face of what Lawrence saw as the moral collapse of modern industrial civilisation after the outbreak of World War I.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |8 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|26 pages

      Darwinism and Lawrence’s Quest for Regeneration: “A New Conception of What it Means, to Live”

      chapter 2|30 pages

      Regeneration, the Rejection of Eugenics and Rananim in Australia

      chapter 3|8 pages

      3Lawrence Decides to Travel to Australia

      chapter 4|24 pages

      4Imagining Australia: “The Vicar’s Garden,” The White Peacock, The Daughter-in-Law, “The Primrose Path,” The Lost Girl,

      chapter 5|28 pages

      “Pommy,” “Pommygranate” and “Pommigrant” in Kangaroo: Mr and Mrs Somers, the Amateur Emigrants

      chapter 6|28 pages

      Aspects of Degeneration in Kangaroo – “A Novel, Shot with a Wayward Beauty”

      chapter 7|6 pages

      “Kangaroo” and the Spirit of Australia

      chapter 8|36 pages

      8The Race for the Bush: The Australian Aboriginal Presence and British Race Regeneration in Kangaroo and The Boy in the Bush

      chapter 9|22 pages

      9Matriarchy, Mates and Bigamy in The Boy in the Bush

      chapter 10|22 pages

      The Aristocrat in the Bush: Some Textual Origins for the Questing Hero in The Boy in the Bush

      chapter 11|16 pages

      Out of Place: Colonial Australians in St. Mawr

      chapter 12|28 pages

      12Last Words: “Preface to Black Swans,” “The Hand,” Lady Chatterley’s Lover, “Eve in the Land of Nod,” P. R. Stephensen – Mandrake Press and “Introduction to Pansies,” Mimosa Letters

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