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In this new and original study, Simon Casey explores the long-neglected link between D. H. Lawrence and philosophical anarchism. Focusing on the writings of some of the major anarchists-with particular emphasis on Stirner, Godwin, Bakunin and Thoreau-this book argues that the conceptual parallels between Lawrence and anarchism are strong and extensive and that reading Lawrence within the context of this tradition significantly enhances any understanding of his work. Lawrence's faith in the essential decency of human nature, his forceful defense of individual liberty, and his intolerance of all forms of domination and control all reflect the essential features of anarchism. Naked Liberty and the World of Desire looks at where these attitudes find explicit articulation in Lawrence's essays, poems, and letters, and shows how they are illustrated in his major works of fiction.
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NAKED LIBERTY AND THE WORLD OF DESIRE
MAJOR LITERARY AUTHORS VOLUME 20
STUDIES IN MAJOR LITERARY AUTHORS OUTSTANDING DISSERTATIONS
edited by
William E.Cain Wellesley College
A ROUTLEDGE SERIES
OTHER BOOKS IN THIS SERIES: PHILIP ROTH CONSIDERED The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer by Steven Milowitz THE PUSHER AND THE SUFFERER An Unsentimental Reading of Moby Dick by Suzanne Stein HENRY JAMES AS A BIOGRAPHER A Self Among Others by Willie Tolliver JOYCEAN FRAMES Film and the Fiction of James Joyce Thomas Burkdall JOSEPH CONRAD AND THE ART OF SACRIFICE Andrew Mozina TECHNIQUE AND SENSIBILITY IN THE FICTION AND POETRY OF RAYMOND CARVER Arthur F.Bethea SHELLEY’S TEXTUAL SEDUCTIONS Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political Works Samuel Lyndon Gladden “ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE” Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley’s Novels Charlene E.Bunnell “THOUGHTS PAINFULLY INTENSE” Hawthorne and the Invalid Author James N.Mancall SEX THEORIES AND THE SHAPING OF TWO MODERNS Hemingway and H.D. Deidre Anne (McVicker) Pettipiece WORD SIGHTINGS Visual Apparatus and Verbal Reality in Stevens, Bishop and O’Hara Sarah Riggs DELICATE PURSUIT Discretion in Henry James and Edith WhartonJessica Levine GERTRUDE STEIN AND WALLACE STEVENS The Performance of Modern Consciousness Sara J.Ford
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LOST CITY Fitzgerald’s New York Lauraleigh O’Meara SOCIAL DREAMING Dickens and the Fairy Tale Elaine Ostry PATRIARCHY AND ITS DISCONTENTS Sexual Politics in Selected Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy Joanna Devereux A NEW MATRIX FOR MODERNISM A Study of the Lives and Poetry of Charlotte Mew & Anna Wickham Nelljean McConeghey Rice WHO READS ULYSSES? The Rheoric of the Joyce Wars and the Common Reader Julie Sloan Brannon
NAKED LIBERTY AND THE WORLD OF DESIRE Elements of Anarchism in the Work of D.H.Lawrence
Simon Casey
ROUTLEDGE New York and London
Published in 2003 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 www.routledge-ny.com Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE www.routledge.co.uk Copyright © 2003 by Taylor & Francis Books, Inc. Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Casey, Simon, 1959– Naked liberty and the world of desire : elements of anarchism in the work of D.H. Lawrence/by Simon Casey. p. cm.—(Studies in major literary aut