Howard J. Booth is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester

• IllustrationsIntroductionHoward J. Booth1. Dust-jackets, blurbs and forewords: the marketing of Sons and LoversAndrew Harrison2. The Rainbow, British Marxist criticism of the 1930s and colonialismHoward J. Booth3. Suicide in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love: a modernist ethicsHolly A. Laird4. Women in Love, psychoanalysis and warHugh Stevens5. 51/49: democracy, abstraction and the machine in Lawrence, Deleuze and their readings of WhitmanJeff Wallace 6. ‘The line and the circle’: D.H. Lawrence, the First World War and myth Stefania Michelucci7. Disappearing tricks: comedy and gender in D. H. Lawrence’s late short fictionBethan Jones8. D. H. Lawrence, language and green cultural critique Fiona Becket9. The trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover: ‘The most thorough and expensive seminar on Lawrence’s work ever given’Sean MatthewsAcknowledgementsIndex

"Drawing on a range of new approaches, this lively, probing and accessible volume enables us rethink and refresh D. H. Lawrence's writings in the light of contemporary concerns. Coming at Lawrence from angles as varied as psychoanalysis, war writing, empire, philosophy, eco-criticism and reception history, the essays represent a wealth of original work and amount to an invigorating reassessment of his reputation" Dr David Bradshaw, Worcester College, Oxford