Biography Flashcards
This text has been judged +++ obscene
: disturbing the way Lawrence anlayze relationship btw men & women ⇒ we are not necessarily masters of our pulsions
: écrit de manière ++ poétique et lyrique avec un fond de philosophie. I
Importance of psychology. D.H.L was ++ inspired by Freud.
DHL birth, study…
11/09/1885 : Born Eastwood Nottinghasmshire
His father was a collier, a miner and his mother a teacher who encouraged him to read to become educated. He was the 4th of children ⇒ up–mobile family.
1906-1908 = Student at University College Nottingham. A prelude under Hessie Chamber’s name (1907)
⇒ He moved to London to work (become teacher) but he resigned after 2 years because of pneumonia. For 7 years he wrote poetry and short stories.
Only one of his friend, Hessie Chamber encouraged him to publish.
⇒ Thanks to DHL is launched in pre war literature. He insists on the pastoral beauty of G
Love story
March 1920 he met Frida weekly, she was german with aristocratic background and she was the wife of his german tutor. He met Frida he was 27 she was 23/33 she had 3 children and both felt in love ⇒ broke conventions. 30/07/1914 = they married and stayed together for rest of their life ⇒ violent & passionate relationship which endured
— Son and Lovers = well-recieved & ++ popular, portrait of the working class, ++ autobiographical. Figure of Paul Maurel ⇒ apparent formlessness
→ we can see influence of Freud on Buildingsroman genre : unconscious, agressive and sexual impulsive as determinant of human actions.
Wedding in 1919 BUT They were expelled from their house in Cornwall because = illicit couple & she was german . ++ Scandals around them ⇒ turned them into outcast, it made them move all life long to escape the kind of bourgeois criticism of their life.
⇒ war time england : people tend to heart back to the traditiOnal values you can hold on to because all – is destroyed.
1919, he also published the rainbow which was suppressed because of sexuality and a darker aspect of human psychology + because of outspoken criticism of civilised society by DHL. He says that it is barbarism : their are undercover of barbarism all around us.
⇒ Novel presented by critic as “a threat to national moral”
Lady Auteline Morrol =
aristocratic lady : had to receive intelligentsia , 19th cent victorian aristocrat who liked to gather intellectuals at her manor. BUT she was ++ stoned by the portrait DHL made of her in WHL : Hermione roddice. She disliked the character. After the war they were constantly on the move travelling (to italy to sealing to sri lanka and australia); in 1922 before taking up a friend invitation, she invited them to live in her artistic colony. His dream of colony took place but he wasn’t the founder
From 1925-1930 :
last 5 years he kept moving btw Britain last time in 1926, and Germany, France, Spain and Italy. He died in Vance in France and his ashes were taken up
Lady Chatterley : Only privately published in Florence at first but 2 pounds crisis
⇒ She had a lover, her gatekeeper while her husband was an impotent man. The novel is much more than this relationship btw Conney and Millors because they are 2 main characters. Lady Chatterley’s lover = attacked in the press and appearance of pirated copies
In lady chatterley’s lover = liberatO of sex from civilised mores and prudery & reconciliation of blood consciousness and mind consciousness
→ Right from its publication 1928 it was banned in GB and only published in 1959 and only unexpurgated in America and in 1960s in GB by Penguin Books because novel which celebrate a women cheating on her husband.
1959 : new obscene publication act
WHL ⇒ tending to deprave and corrupt those who liked to read it.
=> He had a tendency to blurr the disctinctO between generic boundaries, read his poetry.
Contrast btw a life full of struggle, a life on the outskirts of society, a marginal life because Lawrence provoked controversy, scandals, misunderstanding. He was arrested on ground of immorality. He organised an exhibition of his painting in 1988 and police of the exhibition and he was highly expected by his peers’ modernist circles and he was posthumously recognized as a figure of modern england. He still part of school curriculum in england, part of academia = both a writer who studied and read for pleasure = best ind of success you can reach
⇒ the mass of criticism blows the mind : a hundred pages easy
