Author Description

The critical essays in this volume, by leading authorities on D. H. Lawrence, focus on the importance of Italy and England in Lawrence's work and life. The essays cover a diversity of related aspects of Lawrence's work: some explicitly discuss the relation between his sense of his Englishness and his experience of Italy; others range from those which take a primarily biographical focus to those which explore the importance of Italy to his developing vision, both in his travel writings and in his fiction; while still others concern themselves more generally with the central characteristics of Lawrence's creation of fictional worlds in England or in Italy.