This book brings together revised versions of several papers first delivered at the tenth international D.H. Lawrence conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2005. The conference theme that year was "Lawrence and the Frontiers," and the majority of the contributor's to this volume foreground the transgressive aspects of Lawrence's "thought-adventures," identifying his readiness to traverse various sexual, cultural, and ideological faultlines. The editors stress Lawrence's unflinching confrontation with a range of contemporary issues, including "wartime and postwar malaise, fascism, eugenic marriage patterns, racism, sexism, ecological crisis, and the prospect of censorship. As the list suggests, the issues at stake here are very broad indeed. There are nine essays, covering a range of texts and issues, including Lawrence's engagement with Herman Melville, his subversive recourse to eugenic discourses in The Lost Girl, and his use of a kind of magical realist technique in The Plumed Serpent. The two best contributions come from John Worthen ("Over Some Frontiers" at Monte Cassino: Lawrence and Maurice Magnus) and Christopher Pollnitz (Keeping His Flag Flying: Censorship and Lawrence's Poetry).
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