The American Lawrence - by Lee M Jenkins (Paperback)

About the Book

Reassessing Lawrence's relationship to American modernism and his American literary contemporaries, Jenkins offers new insights into the literary exchange between America and Europe.

Book Synopsis

Reassessing Lawrence's relationship to American modernism and his American literary contemporaries, Jenkins offers new insights into the literary exchange between America and Europe.

Review Quotes

"Elegantly and beautifully rendered, with much to engage the reader. . . . An important and timely contribution to debates about Lawrence and spirit of place, and the locations(s) of modernism."--Review of English Studies

"Intelligent, well-focused criticism [that] manages to remain both historicist and revisionist in its ambition and organization."--English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

"A much-needed historicization of Lawrence within American studies."--Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies

"Distinguishes itself through its concision, its keen attention to trends of cultural theory emerging simultaneously to Lawrence's writing in America, and its effective situation of Lawrence's American writing vis-à-vis critical theories in American studies today."--D. H. Lawrence Review

"This study sees Lawrence as a non-American who nevertheless wrote American literature, especially during the 1920s period when he lived in and wrote about New Mexico."--American Literature

"An arresting book. . . . Provides a holistic appraisal of [Lawrence's] American writing . . . Essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in Lawrence, Anglo-American literary history, and the transnational."--Irish Journal of American Studies