{"product_id":"dh-lawrences-australia-by-david-game-9781472415059","title":"D.H. Lawrence's Australia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first full-length account of D.H. Lawrence’s rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating, \u003cem\u003eD.H. Lawrence’s Australia\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the philosophical, anthropological and literary influences that informed the utopian and regenerative visions that characterise so much of Lawrence’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Game gives particular attention to the four novels and one novella published between 1920 and 1925, what Game calls Lawrence’s 'Australian period,' shedding new light on Lawrence’s attitudes towards Australia in general and, more specifically, towards Australian Aborigines, women and colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe revisits key aspects of Lawrence’s development as a novelist and thinker, including the influence of Darwin and Lawrence’s rejection of eugenics, Christianity, psychoanalysis and science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Game concentrates on the Australian novels such as \u003cem\u003eKangaroo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Boy in the Bush\u003c\/em\u003e, he also uncovers the Australian elements in a range of other works, including Lawrence’s last novel, \u003cem\u003eLady Chatterley’s Lover\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLawrence lived in Australia for just three months, but as Game shows, it played a significant role in his quest for a way of life that would enable regeneration of the individual in the face of what Lawrence saw as the moral collapse of modern industrial civilisation after the outbreak of World War I.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605592752364,"sku":"9781472415059","price":341.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781472415059-d-h-lawrence-s-australia.jpg?v=1778133764","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/dh-lawrences-australia-by-david-game-9781472415059","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}