D. H. Lawrence in Context

Abstract

"Context" here means the novelist's relation to the literary influence around him in his reading and in his native tradition. Lawrence with reason saw himself as an ultra-modern, revolutionary artist, yet the place of English writers in his artistic development and identity is a crucial aspect of his art. Evidence of the effects of writers from Charlotte Brontë and Mrs Gaskell to Thomas Hardy and those of his own time will be examined and discussed, in order to qualify the nature of the frequently-used term "modernist" in his case.