Focusing on D. H. Lawrence's concept of "essential criticism," which was introduced in his posthumously published "Study of Thomas Hardy" and his statement that "every work of art adheres to some system of morality. But it must contain the essential criticism on the morality to which it adheres," this book examines the ways in which Lawrence presents his ideas in his major novels The Rainbow and Women in Love. It explores how this concept plays a crucial role in his fiction as an "other" to the implied author's messages: functioning differently, as equivocation and creative strife, respectively, in The Rainbow and Women in Love, the concept helps to make these novels more dynamic that commonly realized.

Preface vii 
List of Abbreviations xi 
Lawrentian Supreme Art and ``Essential Criticism'' 1(32) 
The ``Postmodern'' Lawrence and Its Discontents 1(4) 
``Essential Criticism'': A Return to Lawrence 5(5) 
``Why the Novel Matters'': Self, Truth, and the Novel 10(15) 
Self 11(5) 
Truth 16(3) 
The Novel 19(6) 
``De-postmodernizing'' Lawrence, or a Critique of the Postmodern Reception of Lawrence 25(8) 
The Rainbow: Essential Criticism as Equivocation 33(40) 
The Rainbow, or Sons and Lovers Revisited 33(8) 
An ``Equi-vocal'' Text 41(14) 
``Opposites, Not Complements'': Will and Anna 55(10) 
Ursula without the Other 65(8) 
Women in Love: Essential Criticism as Creative Strife 73(54) 
A Two-edged Novel 73(9) 
Self-liberation vs. Self-repression 82(5) 
Quasi-criticisms 87(6) 
Birkin Agonistes 93(12) 
Ursula, or ``the Terrible Other'' 105(10) 
``Philosophy interests me most now'' 115(12) 
Conclusion: ``Anything That Triumphs, Perishes'' 127(14) 
Notes 141(10) 
Bibliography 151(12) 
Index 163

Doo-Sun Ryu is Associate Professor at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. He received his Ph.D. in English from New York University.

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