D.H. Lawrence, Music and Modernism

• Main Author: Reid, Susan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Music.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

This first book-length study of D. H. Lawrence's lifelong engagement with music surveys his extensive musical interests and how these permeate his writing, while also situating Lawrence within a growing body of work on music and modernism. A twin focus considers the music that shaped Lawrence&#...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: "Words writ to the music"
• 2. "The insidious mastery of song": Cadence and decadence in the early poems
• 3. Lawrence's case of Wagner: The White Peacock and The Trespasser
• 4. "Between heaven and earth": Space, music and religion in The Rainbow
• 5. "Beyond the sound of words": Harmony and polyphony in Women in Love
• 6. Music, noise and the First World War: "All of Us", Bay and Aaron's Rod
• 7. New world musicals: The Plumed Serpent and David
• 8. Conclusion: Aspiring to the condition of song
• 9. Afterword: Anthony Burgess's D. H. Lawrence Suite.