D.H. Lawrence and Edward Carpenter : A Study in Edwardian Transition

London England: Heinemann, 1971. Hardback. Ex-library with ex-library markings. Very slight foxing to edge. Price clipped to D/J. This study is not meant to be a search for 'sources' of the works of D. H. lawrence, so much as an attempt to define a mental climate, to connect, historically and in detail the works of a creative writer with ideas and conceptions detected in them yet never hitherto specifically related to his immediate surroundings. It aims rather at defining in the history of ideas not a main stream and filiation of philosophical thinking, but a pervading flow of mental representations at a given leel of social life, at a given moment of English literature, and in a writer who at that moment gives these representations their most striking expression. It is a study of background and atmosphere, rather than of summits. It is concerned not with the values of ideas, so much as with their existence at the time of observation, and with their use in the hidden infra-sctructure of works of imagination. Illustrated. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.