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'The first full-length account of D. H. Lawrence’s rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating, D. H. Lawrence’s Australia focuses on the philosophical, anthropological and literary influences that informed the utopian and regenerative visions that characterise so much of Lawrence’s work. David Game gives particular attention to the four novels and one novella published between 1920 and 1925, what Game calls Lawrence’s “Australian period,” shedding new light on Lawrence’s attitudes towards Australia in general and, more specifically, towards Australian Aborigines, women and colonialism. He revisits key aspects of Lawrence’s development as a novelist and thinker, including the influence of Darwin and Lawrence’s rejection of eugenics, Christianity, psychoanalysis and science. While Game concentrates on the Australian novels such as Kangaroo and The Boy in the Bush, he also uncovers the Australian elements in a range of other works, including Lawrence’s last novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Lawrence lived in Australia for just three months, but as Game shows, it played a significant role in his quest for a way of life that would enable regeneration of the individual in the face of what Lawrence saw as the moral collapse of modern industrial civilisation after the outbreak of World War I.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: To my parents / Michael and Elizabeth Game
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Epigraph: "... and in Australia mimosa, that they call wattle, and sharp-tongued strange heath-flowers." (D.H. Lawrence, "Flowery Tuscany")
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Review of D. H. Lawrence’s Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire, by David Game
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , November vol. 33 no. 3 2018;
— Review of D. H. Lawrence's Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire 2015 single work criticism'Preconceptions of another country can take hold of an artist’s imagination – as ‘America’ did Kafka’s and Lorca’s – but who knew that D. H. Lawrence developed a comprehensive idea of ‘Australia’ long before his one hundred-day visit? Or how central that was to his later work? The objective of David Game, Honorary Lecturer at the Australian National University, is modestly expressed: to ‘throw new light on the significance of [Lawrence's] overall engagement with Australia – its place in his life and art’ (7). He does much more in a work of major scholarship.'
Source: Abstract.
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Modernism in a Global Context; D.H. Lawrence’s Australia: Anxiety at the Edge of Empire; The American Lawrence
2017
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— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 54 no. 1 2017; (p. 136-139)
— Review of D. H. Lawrence's Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire 2015 single work criticism -
[Review] D. H. Lawrence’s Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 16 no. 1 2016;
— Review of D. H. Lawrence's Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire 2015 single work criticism -
Finding Apple Blossom : D. H. Lawrence's 'Tilt' Towards Australia
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 382 2016; (p. 27-28)
— Review of D. H. Lawrence's Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire 2015 single work criticism -
D.H. Lawrence's Australian Experiment
2015
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , October 2015;
— Review of D. H. Lawrence's Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire 2015 single work criticism
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D.H. Lawrence's Australian Experiment
2015
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , October 2015;
— Review of D. H. Lawrence's Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire 2015 single work criticism -
Finding Apple Blossom : D. H. Lawrence's 'Tilt' Towards Australia
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 382 2016; (p. 27-28)
— Review of D. H. Lawrence's Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire 2015 single work criticism -
[Review] D. H. Lawrence’s Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 16 no. 1 2016;
— Review of D. H. Lawrence's Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire 2015 single work criticism -
Modernism in a Global Context; D.H. Lawrence’s Australia: Anxiety at the Edge of Empire; The American Lawrence
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 54 no. 1 2017; (p. 136-139)
— Review of D. H. Lawrence's Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire 2015 single work criticism -
Review of D. H. Lawrence’s Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire, by David Game
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , November vol. 33 no. 3 2018;
— Review of D. H. Lawrence's Australia : Anxiety at the Edge of Empire 2015 single work criticism'Preconceptions of another country can take hold of an artist’s imagination – as ‘America’ did Kafka’s and Lorca’s – but who knew that D. H. Lawrence developed a comprehensive idea of ‘Australia’ long before his one hundred-day visit? Or how central that was to his later work? The objective of David Game, Honorary Lecturer at the Australian National University, is modestly expressed: to ‘throw new light on the significance of [Lawrence's] overall engagement with Australia – its place in his life and art’ (7). He does much more in a work of major scholarship.'
Source: Abstract.