TONY PINKNEY, D. H. LAWRENCE AND MODERNISM

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction: Lawrence as Modernist. (p. 1)

• 1. Englishness and Realism: The White Peacock, Sons and Lovers, England, My England. (p. 5)

• 2. Northernness and Modernism: The Trespasser, The Rainbow, Women in Love. (p. 54)

• 3. Structures of Modernism:
  The 'Male Pseudo-Couple': Aaron;s Rod, Kangaroo.
  The 'Mythical Method': the Chatterley novels, The Plumed Serpent. (p. 100)

• Conclusion: The Resources of Classicism. (p. 163)

SELECTED SUMMARY NOTES ON THE TEXT

Pinkney gives us a useful example, in Lawrence, of the modernist impulse to conserve a universalist concept, which came to be rejected in the postmodern temper. See especially the following quote from his "Conclusion:"

"But modernism, too, so startlingly, even bizarrely different from the classicist lineage of an Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson or Matthew Arnold, is also a secret refuge for classicism in our own century. The modernist motifs of impersonality, hardness, objectivity, 'presentation' are a salvaging of traditional classicist ideals of austerity and universality, even if a two-line Imagist haiku looks very different from a play by Sophocles...." (p. 164)