The Embodied Reader in D. H. Lawrence's Criticism and Fiction

Reading, Feeling and Modernist Form

von Harry Acton

216 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book offers a new reading of D.H. Lawrence's critical and fictional modernism, setting it in dialogue with a recent, multifaceted turn in literary studies towards readers' affective and embodied responses to texts. It argues that Lawrence's critical works acknowledge, in their turbulent forms as well as their explicit statements, reading as an embodied experience, and explores how his affectively charged critical practice is rooted in a distinct early-twentieth-century culture of autodidactic reading. Attending to Lawrence's critical aesthetics of embodied reading, the book further demonstrates, sheds new light on the means by which his own modernist fiction engages felt responses in the reader, and on the ethical potential of such effects.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9781399538251
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2025
• Größe: 237 x 158 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press