Indrek Männiste is Researcher of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and author of Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist: A Philosophical Inquiry (Bloomsbury, 2013).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsForewordMichael Bell (University of Warwick, UK) Acknowledgments AbbreviationsChronologyIntroductionIndrek Männiste (University of Tartu, Estonia)1. D. H. Lawrence’s Long Passage from a Rural to an Industrial WorldNick Ceramella (University of Trento, Italy)2. “Colliers is a discontented lot”: “The Miner at Home” in the Nation and the 1912 National Coal StrikeAnnalise Grice (Nottingham Trent University, UK)3. D. H. Lawrence among the Early Modern BohemiansKatherine Toy Miller (Angelo State University, USA)4. D. H. Lawrence and "The Machine Incarnate": Robots Among the "Nettles"Tina Ferris (Independent Writing and Editing Professional and D.H. Lawrence scholar, USA)5. “Men No More Than the Subjective Material of the Machine”: D. H. Lawrence, Machinery and War-time PsychologyAndrew Harrison (University of Nottingham, UK)6. To Produce, or Not to Produce, That Is the Question: Technology, Democracy and War in Women in LoveGaku Iwai (Konan University, Japan)7. Hierarchy, Beauty, and Freedom: D. H. Lawrence's Response to Techno-Industrial ModernityColin D. Pearce (Clemson University, USA)8. “The Art of Living”: D. H. Lawrence’s Technologies of SelfJeff Wallace (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK)I9. Engineering Away Humanity: Lawrence on Technology and Mental Consciousness in Lady Chatterley’s Loverand PansiesAndrew Keese (Texas Tech University, USA)10. Lawrence’s Allotropic "Gladiatorial": Resisting the Mechanization of the Human in Women in LoveThalia Trigoni (University of Cambridge, UK)11. Green Lawrence?: Consciousness, Ecology and PoetryFiona Becket (University of Leeds, UK)12. D. H. Lawrence and Film: Reconsidering Fidelity in Ken Russell's Women in LoveEarl G. Ingersoll (College at Brockport, USA)13. Poetics of Technology: D. H. Lawrence and the Well-Tempered CounterpointIndrek Männiste (University of Tartu, Estonia)14. Trains in D. H. Lawrence's Creative WritingHelen Baron (Independent Scholar and Editor, UK)15. On Entertainment: The Lassitude of Lawrence's Dead NovelDominic Jaeckle (Goldsmiths College, UK)BibliographyIndex

A great addition to D.H. Lawrence’s scholarship. Over the last two centuries, technology and mechanization have overwhelmed human beings, changing our lives at an alarming rate. This very thoughtful collection of essays highlights powerfully how Lawrence’s message is a never-ending struggle to cope with innovation and preserve our humanity.