The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts, eds. Catherine Brown and Susan Reid (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020)

This book is a stimulating addition to the series The Edinburgh Companions to X and the Arts. Its twenty-eight specially commissioned chapters reassess Lawrence’s engagement with aesthetic forms taking into account their historical and critical contexts. Lawrence’s sustained interest in drama, painting, sculpture, music, dance and architecture is examined along with his appropriation of Biblical aesthetics and his representations of technology, politics, fashion and sexual identities. A section of the Companion considers Lawrence’s unabating aesthetic power as exemplified by his legacy to bio-fiction, cinema and popular culture.

Table of contents

Introduction – Catherine Brown and Susan Reid

PART I: AESTHETICS

1. The idea of the Aesthetic – Michael Bell (Warwick Univ, UK)

2. Gesamtkunstwerk– Susan Reid (Northampton Univ, UK)

3. Romanticism, Decadence, History – Vincent Sherry (Washington Univ in St Louis, MO, USA)

4. National and Racial Aesthetics – Peter Childs (Newman Univ, UK)

5. Traditional Aesthetics – Julianne Newmark (Univ of New Mexico, USA)

6. Translation – Stefania Michelucci (Genoa Univ, Italy)

7. Biblical Aesthetics – Shirley Bricout (Montpellier Univ, France)

8. Historiography and Life Writing – Andrew Harrison (Nottingham Univ, UK)

9. Queer Aesthetics – Hugh Stevens (Univ College London, UK)

10. Politics and Art – Howard J. Booth (Manchester Univ, UK)

11. Popular Culture – Gemma Moss (Birmingham City Univ, UK)

12. Technology – David Trotter (Cambridge Univ, UK)

PART II: AESTHETIC FORMS

SECTION 1: VERBAL ARTS

13. The idea of the Novel – Keith Cushman (Univ of North Carolina, USA)

14. Practitioner Criticism: Poetry – Holly A. Laird (Univ of Tulsa, OK, USA)

15. Revising and Rewriting – Paul Eggert (Univ New South Wales, Australia)

SECTION 2: PERFORMANCE ARTS

16. Performance – John Worthen (Nottingham Univ, UK)

17. Drama and the Dramatic – Jeremy Tambling (Warsaw, Poland)

18. Music – Susan Reid (Northampton, UK)

19. Dance – Susan Jones (Oxford Univ, UK)

SECTION 3: VISUAL ARTS

20.  Practitioner Criticism: Painting – Jeff Wallace (Cardiff Univ, UK)

21. Book Design – Jonathan Long (independent scholar, UK)

22. Sculpture – Jane Costin (Univ Truro, UK)

23. Architecture – Sarah Edwards (Univ of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)

24. Clothing and Jewellery – Judith Ruderman (Duke Univ, NC, USA)

PART III: LAWRENCE IN OTHERS’ ART

25. Lawrence in Biofiction – Lee M. Jenkins (Univ College Cork, IE)

26. Lawrence set to Music – Bethan Jones (Hull Univ, UK)

27. Lawrence and Twenty-First-Century Film – Louis K. Greiff (Alfred Uni, NY, USA)

28. D. H. Lawrence: Icon – Catherine Brown (New College of the Humanities, UK)

Notes on contributors

Index