商品簡介
Al-Dabbagh (English literature, United Arab Emirates U.) argues that the author of Lady Chatterly's Lover and many other novels was guided by an anti-socialist, fascist outlook that came out of an intellectual milieu in which British literary intellectuals were isolated from the socialist workers' movement in the context of imperial Britain and thus tended to divide among social-imperialists on the one hand, and reactionaries and potential fascists on the other. After discussing the development of this milieu, Al-Dabbagh interrogates Lawrence's outlook on imperialism and his attitude towards socialism, particularly in his more overtly political novels. He then discusses such themes in Lawrence's writing as contempt for man as a social being and the existential division of human beings into higher and lower creatures. He further examines Lawrence's relationships with other writers around him, arguing that their writings were a manifestation of the decay of imperialist culture that continues to the present, and explores the ways that critics have sought to hide Lawrence's politics. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Abdulla Al-Dabbagh is Professor of English Literature at the United Arab Emirates University. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University, an M.Litt. from Cambridge University, and a PhD from Essex University. He has taught English, American, and world literatures, literary criticism, comparative literature, and translation at universities in Iraq, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. He is the author of Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism and Shakespeare, the Orient, and the Critics.
