Modernists at Odds

Reconsidering Joyce and Lawrence

Matthew J. Kochis, Heather L. Lusty

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9780813065625
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

"Challenges the unhelpful polarization of Lawrence and Joyce in much twentieth-century literary criticism and offers intriguing alternatives to what is surely a reductive approach to the achievements of both writers."—Fiona Becket, author of The Complete Critical Guide to D. H. Lawrence

"A groundbreaking collection. Sexuality, censorship, publishing, and rivalry are all treated with a fresh eye; cutting-edge archival research is brought to the fore; and new perspectives such as ecocriticism are among the many highlights."—Susan Mooney, author of The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality

Modernism's most contentious rivals, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, were polar opposites—stylistically, personally, and professionally—yet their lives, works, and careers bear striking similarities. They shared the same literary agent, published in the same literary magazines, fought legal battles against censorship, and were both pirated by Samuel Roth. This is the first book to explore the resonances between the two writers, shattering the historical silence between Joyceans and Lawrentians.

The parallels run deep between these epic figures of the literary canon, and this volume explores the classic modernist paradoxes shared by the two writers. Both were at once syncretists and shatterers, bourgeois cosmopolitans, prudish libertines, displaced nostalgists, and rebels against their native lands. Considering mutual themes such as gender, class, horseracing, nature, religion, exile, and modernism's fascination with Egyptology, these essays highlight the many intersections in the major novels and short fiction of Joyce and Lawrence. Modernists at Odds is a long overdue extended comparison of two of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century.

A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles Contributors Enda Duffy | Earl G. Ingersoll | Louise Kane | Matthew J. Kochis | Eleni Loukopoulou | Heather L. Lusty | Carl F. Miller | Jennifer Mitchell | Margot Norris

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Chronologies
• Introduction: Injoynted Perspectives
• 1. Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Ulysses
• 2. Love, Bodies, and Nature in Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Ulysses
• 3. The “Odd Couple” Constructing the “New Man”: Bloom and Mellors in Ulysses and Lady Chatterley’s Lover
• 4. The End of Sacrifice: Joyce’s “The Dead” and Lawrence’s “The Man Who Died”
• 5. The Isis Effect: How Joyce and Lawrence Revitalize Christianity through Foreignization
• 6. “In Europe They Usually Mention Us Together”: Joyce, Lawrence, and the Little Magazines
• 7. Lawrence and Joyce in T. S. Eliot’s Criterion Miscellany Series
• 8. An Encounter with the Real: A Lacanian Motif in Joyce’s “The Dead” and Lawrence’s “The Shadow in the Rose Garden”
• 9. Masochism and Marriage in The Rainbow and Ulysses
• 10. That Long Kiss: Comparing Joyce and Lawrence
• 11. “Result of the Rockinghorse Races”: The Ironic Culture of Racing in Joyce’s Ulysses and Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner”
• List of Contributors
• Index