Introduction

Annihilating Borders: Nature, Human Beings, Machinery in “Odour of Chrysanthemums”

Chapter
1. Degeneration, Aestheticism and Empire: Middle-Class Ideology and

The White Peacock

Chapter
2. Bestwood and the Morels under Evolution: Parallelism through Procreation and Evolution in Sons and Lovers

Chapter
3. The Brangwens and Construction of the Towns in The Rainbow

Chapter
4. Lawrence and War: Historical Contexts

I. Lawrence and the First World War

II. Lawrence and Anti-German Propaganda

III. History Books in Context

Chapter
5. Wartime Discourses on War and Peace in Movements in European History

I. The Germanic Race

II. The Huns

III. The Unification of Germany

Chapter
6. To Produce, or Not to Produce, That is the Question: Materialism, Democracy and War in Women in Love

Chapter
7. Wartime Short Stories from “The Thimble” to “The Blind Man” and “Tickets Please”

I. Popular Wartime Romance and Lawrence’s Anti-Romance: Berta Ruck’s “The Infant-in Arms” and Lawrence’s “The Thimble”

II. The Path to Resurrection or Becoming a War Machine in “New Heaven and Earth”, “Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani” and “England, My England”

III. Short Fiction in 1918: “The Fox”, “The Blind Man” and “Tickets Please”

Chapter
8. Class Conflicts in Ambivalence from “Daughters of the Vicar” and “Hadrian” to Lady Chatterley’s Lover

I. Middle-Class Anxiety and its Solution in “Daughters of the Vicar”

II. Returned Soldier and Working-Class Threat in “Hadrian”

III. Lady Chatterley’s Lover: Temptation to the Bourgeois Myth

Epilogue. Which Class Do Lawrence’s Texts Belong To?