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Introduction
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Science
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The Posthuman
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'This ambitious and wide-ranging book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Lawrence and in contemporary debates about the 'posthuman'. Wallace reassesses Lawrence's engagement with the science of his day, and traces the anticipation in his work of much subsequent thinking about self, other, and the crumbling thresholds between humans, animals and machines. D. H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman is an important contribution to literary studies which can be read continuously or dipped in and out of for pleasure' - N.H. Reeve, Senior Lecturer, University of Wales Swansea, UK
'A truly pioneering study, the first to show just how seriously Lawrence took science despite his frequent denunciations of it...It is unusual to encounter someone who combines an intimate knowledge of Lawrence's work with such a sure grasp of much wider cultural and theoretical issues...Ambitious and wide-ranging yet meticulous and scholarly, this book will make an outstanding contribution both to Lawrence studies and to the wider field of science, literature and the posthuman' - Dr. Anne Fernihough, Girton College, Cambridge University, UK
'[A] study of impressive range and depth which greatly extends our knowledge of Lawrence and the context of his contradictory and shifting patterns of thought. The argument is original, gripping and often superbly sustained, with a full and rich sense of both text and context.' - English
'Wallace reading of Lawrence suggests some of the ways in which Lawrence's imagining of the posthuman might lead to a new, utopian accommodation between human and machine....Jeff Wallace's wonderfully elegant new book'. - Textual Practice
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Book Title: D.H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman
Authors: Jeff Wallace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287631
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Jeff Wallace 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4232-6Published: 28 June 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52122-7Published: 28 June 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28763-1Published: 28 June 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 264
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Philosophy, general