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title	:	Defiant Desire : Some Dialectical Legacies of D.H. Lawrence
author	:	Widmer, Kingsley.
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	080931763X
print isbn13	:	9780809317639
ebook isbn13	:	9780585210018
language	:	English
subject	Lawrence, D. H.--(David Herbert),--1885-1930--Criticism and interpretation, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,--1844-1900--Influence, Negativity (Philosophy) in literature, English fiction--German influences, Negation (Logic) in literature, Desire in literatur
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	PR6023.A93Z9542 1992eb
ddc	:	823/.912
subject	:	Lawrence, D. H.--(David Herbert),--1885-1930--Criticism and interpretation, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,--1844-1900--Influence, Negativity (Philosophy) in literature, English fiction--German influences, Negation (Logic) in literature, Desire in literatur

Page ii Other Books of Literary and Cultural Criticism by Kingsley Widmer: The Art of Perversity: D. H. Lawrence's Shorter Fictions (1962) Henry Miller (1963; rev. ed., 1990) The Literary Rebel (1965) The Ways of Nihilism: Melville's Short Novels (1970) The End of Culture: Essays on Sensibility in Contemporary Society (1975) Edges of Extremity: Some Problems of Literary Modernism (1980) Paul Goodman (1980) Nathanael West (1982) Counterings: Utopian Dialectics in Contemporary Contexts (1988)

Page iii Defiant Desire Some Dialectical Legacies of D. H. Lawrence Kingsley Widmer Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville

Page iv Copyright 1992 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Kyle Lake Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga 95 94 93 92 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Widmer, Kingsley, 1925 Defiant desire : some dialectical legacies of D.H. Lawrence / Kingsley Widmer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930Criticism and interpretation. 2. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. 1844-1900 Influence. 3. Negation (Logic) in literature. 4. Desire in literature. 5. Dialectic. I. Title. PR6023.A93Z9542 1992 823'.912dc20 91-28121 ISBN 0-8093-1763-X CIP "Desire and Denial, Dialectics of Passion in D. H. Lawrence." D. H. Lawrence Review 18 (1985-86): 139-150. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. "Melville and the Myths of Modernism." A Companion to Melville Studies. Edited by John Bryant. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. "The Pertinence of Modern Pastoral: The Three Versions of Lady Chatterley's Lover." Studies in the Novel 5 (Fall 1973): 298-313. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

Page v Contents Acknowledgments vii 1. Defiant Desire: Introduction, Examples, Adumbrations 1 2. Dark Prophecy of Negative Desire: Lawrence's Nietzschean Matrix 40 3. Problems of Desire in Lady Chatterley's Lover 70 4. Lawrence's Desiring and Negating American Progeny: Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Some Melvilleans 100 5. Desirable and Negative Legacy of Lawrence as Dissident Culture Hero 131 Notes 177 Works Cited 222 Index 239

Page vii Acknowledgments From several dozen articles on and around Lawrence, I have selected half a dozen to not only rewrite but to partly reformulate into a fairly continuous argument for this book. Though it deploys mostly different material, I see it as a continuation and extension of the perspective presented in my book on Lawrence a generation ago, The Art of Perversity: D. H. Lawrence's Shorter Fictions (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1962), which was the redoing of a dissertation and a group of essays done in the middle 1950s. But perhaps I have learned a few things in my unceasing dialectic with the subject and some of its ramifications, several of which I explore here. Obviously there is an ongoing indebtedness to many persons involved over nearly four decades in my arguments with and around Lawrence and the Lawrenceans. Probably there is also an apology due to many as well for my not having learned more fully from their responses and for my not making more charitable acknowledgment. But my weakness at careerist decorums may also be seen to have other, more iconoclastic as well as naive, purposes. At least I can make brief specific acknowledgment here of the previously published essays, and their energetic editors, that provided the scaffolding for the present book. For the earliest one, James Cox both suggested and raised problems about "The Pertinence of Modern Pastoral: The Three Versions of

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