Promptings of Desire

PAUL POPLAWSKI is Director of Studies at Vaughan College, University of Leicester. He has taught widely in 19th and 20th century literature and specializes in D. H. Lawrence, Modernism, and Jane Austen. He recently published a revised 3rd edition of Warren Robets' A Bibliography of D. H. Lawrence (2001). He is also the author of D. H. Lawrence: A Reference Companion (Greenwood, 1996), and A Jane Austen Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 1998), and editor of Writing the Body in D. H. Lawrence (Greenwood, 2001).

• PrefaceIntroductionThe Concept of Creativity: A Preliminary ViewThe Creative Unconscious: Self, Society and FreedomThe Art of CreativityCreative Evolution: The Early Formation of Lawrence's Religious ThoughtNature, Art and Belief in the Early NovelsThe Metaphysics of Creativity and The RainbowThe Rainbow II: Rhythms of the Unknown GodLawrence Against Himself: Elitism and the Mystification of SexConsolidation: 1915-1930ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex