A Preface to Lawrence

Clear, vivid and convincing, Gamini Salgado's introduction to the life and works of D H Lawrence, sets the writer firmly in the context of his times

GMINI SALGDO was formerly Professor of English at Exeter University. His work on Lawrence developed while reading for a doctorate at Nottingham, the novelist's own university. He has published a book on Sons and Lovers (Studies in English Literature, Arnold) and edited an anthology of criticism of it (Macmillan Casebooks ). In addition he has published a number of editions and other studies of drama and prose literature, most recently English Drama: A Critical Introduction (Arnold).

Part one The Writer and his Setting; Chapter 1 Lawrence's life; Chapter 2 The intellectual background; Part two Critical Survey; Chapter 3 The White Peacock: experience versus expectations; Chapter 4 Sons and Lovers; Chapter 5 The Rainbow; Chapter 6 Women in Love; Chapter 7 The shorter fiction; Chapter 8 Lawrence's poetry; Chapter 9 Lawrence as literary critic; Chapter 10 Lawrence's plays;