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While critical consensus has deemed Women in Love Lawrence’s most important Modernist novel, there is little agreement on its relation to history. Even Leavis, who located its finger on “the whole pulse of social England”, betrayed uncertainty regarding the chapter “The Industrial Magnate”: “In some moods, the account of the [industrial] process may very well strike us as something like the essential human history of the decades since Women in Love was written.” Dismissing this appeal to Lawrence’s powers of prophecy John Worthen concludes that the chapter, and by implication the novel, is “more concerned with myth than with history”; Graham Holderness chooses the expression “ideology” instead of myth.1
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F.R. Leavis, D.H. Lawrence, Novelist (London: Pelican, 1955) 206, 169; John Worthen, D.H. Lawrence and the Idea of the Novel (London: Macmillan, 1979), 89; Graham Holderness, D.H. Lawrence (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan Humanities Press, 1982), 209.
Samuel Hynes, A War Imagined (London: Bodley Head, 1990), 65, 101–2, 106.
John Keegan, The First World War (London: Random House, 1998), 298, 304, 307–8, 312, 316, 314, 319, 321, 321. Stuart Sillars, Art and Survival in First World War Britain (Basingstoke: Macmillan — now Palgrave Macmillan, 1978), 51; Trevor Wilson, The Myriad Faces of War (Cambridge: Polity, 1986), 336.
Peter Buitenhuis, The Great War of Words (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1987), 141–2, 145.
Trudi Tate, Modernism, History and the First World War (Manchester University Press, 1998), 5, 43.
Robert Graves, Good-bye to all That (London: Jonathan Cape, 1929), 283; Max Arthur, Forgotten Voices of the Great War (London: Ebury Press, 2002), 169.
Mark Kinkead-Weekes and John Worthen, “More about The Rainbow”, DHLR, XXIX/3 (2000), 15.
Mark Kinkead-Weekes, D.H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile (Cambridge University Press, 1996), 282.
Paul Delaney, D.H. Lawrence’s Nightmare (Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1979), 235.
Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony (London: Routledge, 1992), 15.
Jon Glover and Jon Silkin, The Penguin Book of First World War Prose (London: Penguin, 1990), 344.
Ronald Draper, D.H. Lawrence (London: Barnes & Noble, 1970), 168–70; Glover and Silkin, The Penguin Book of First World War Prose, 345; Cathy Caruth, ed., Trauma (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 153.
Wilfred Owen, War Poems and Others (London: Chatto & Windus, 1973), 87.
Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring (London: Bantam, 1989), 176.
See John Middleton Murry, Between Two Worlds (London: Jonathan Cape, 1935), 287; Kinkead-Weekes, D.H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile, 788–9.
Joanna Bourke, Dismembering the Male (London: Reaktion Books, 1996), 56, 33, 35; Tate, Modernism, 96.
Eric Leed, No Man’s Land (Cambridge University Press, 1979), 56.
Ibid., 102–3.
Richard Aldington, Death of a Hero (London: Chatto & Windus, 1930), 373.
George Panichas, ed., Promise of Greatness (London: Cassell, 1968), 47.
Herbert Read, In Retreat (London: Hogarth Press, 1925), 13, 34.
Robert Nichols, Ardours and Endurances (London: Chatto & Windus, 1918), 37–41.
Sigmund Freud, “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” (1915), Penguin Freud Library, vol. 12 (London: Penguin, 1991), 79.
Maurice Maeterlinck, Hothouses, trans. Richard Howard (Princeton University Press, 2003), 54–5; J.-K. Huysmans, Against Nature, trans. Robert Baldick (London: Penguin, 1959), 101.
Peter Nicholls, Modernisms (London: Macmillan, 1995), 46; Patrick McGuinness, Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siècle (University of Exeter Press, 2000), 5.
Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil (Oxford University Press, 1993), 60–1.
Sigmund Freud, “On Narcissism: An Introduction” (1914), Penguin Freud Library, vol. 11 (London: Penguin, 1991), 78.
Sigmund Freud “Instincts and Their Vicissitudes” (1915) Penguin Freud Library, vol. 11 (London: Penguin, 1991), 126.
Jennifer Birkett, The Sins of the Fathers (London: Quartet, 1986), 4; Caruth, Trauma, 129.
Freud, “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920), Penguin Freud Library, vol. 11 (London: Penguin, 1991), 293, 301–2, 298.
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (London: Penguin, 1972), 357.
See Bernard Bergonzi, Heroes’ Twilight (Manchester, Carcanet, 1996), 197.
See Carl Krockel, The Politics of Influence: D.H. Lawrence and Germany (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007).
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Krockel, C. (2011). Testimony as History: The First “Women in Love”. In: War Trauma and English Modernism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307759_4
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