The Glyph and the Gramophone: D.H. Lawrence's Religion
Author(s): Luke Ferretter (Author)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 12 Sept. 2013
Language: English
Print length: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 1441132589
ISBN-13: 9781441132581
Book Description
D. H. Lawrence wrote in 1914, ‘Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depths of my religious experience.’ Although he had broken with the Congregationalist faith of his childhood by his early twenties, Lawrence remained throughout his writing life a passionately religious man. There have been studies in the last twenty years of certain aspects of Lawrence’s religious writing, but we lack a survey of the history of his developing religious thought and of his expressions of that thought in his literary works. This book provides that survey, from 1915 to the end of Lawrence’s life. Covering the war years, Lawrence’s American works, his time in Australia and Mexico, and the works of the last years of his life, this book provides readers with a complete analysis, during this period, of Lawrence as a religious man, thinker and artist.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A remarkably well-documented study of Lawrence’s religious thought based on a careful exploration of its sources and a discussion of former interpretations. The way the author traces the evolution of Lawrence’s spiritual quest throws new light on the writer’s controversial ‘leadership novels’ and is particularly helpful for our appreciation of his last works and poems. Ginette Katz-Roy, Paris-Ouest University, France
Early in his career D. H. Lawrence declared that he was “primarily a passionate religious man.” The Glyph and the Gramophone demonstrates the centrality of Lawrence’s non-doctrinal religious beliefs to an understanding of his thought and literary works. In the bargain the book reconfirms Lawrence’s status as one of the greatest English writers of the first half of the 20th century. Keith Cushman, Past President, D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
In this carefully researched and lucidly written study Luke Ferreter traces the diverse expressions of D. H. Lawrence’s religious vision… The book’s combination of original research with illuminating analyses of the fiction, discursive prose and poetry will make it indispensable reading for both students new to the author and scholars looking for a fresh, bold and comprehensive approach to this important but relatively unexplored area of Lawrence studies. Dr Andrew Harrison, University of Nottingham, UK
About the Author
Luke Ferretter is Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century British and American Literature at Baylor University, USA. He is author of Towards a Christian Literary Theory (Palgrave, 2003), Louis Althusser (Routledge, 2006), and Sylvia Plath’s Fiction: A Critical Study (Edinburgh UP, 2010) and has published widely on twentieth-century literature and literature and religion.
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