D. H. Lawrence, Technology, and Modernity

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."

Autorentext

Indrek Männiste is Researcher of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and author *of *Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist: A Philosophical Inquiry (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Inhalt

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 Harris**on (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 Lover*and *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