D.H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman ISBN-13: 9781349521227

ISBN-13: 9781349521227

Binding: Paperback

Author: Wallace, J.

Details: About the Author JEFF WALLACE is Principal Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan, UK. His previous, co-edited books are Charles Darwins Origin of Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays, Raymond Williams Now, and Gothic Modernisms. He is an editor of the journal Key Words and of the book series Texts in Culture. Product Description Why was D.H. Lawrence preoccupied with the enigma of the human as thinking matter? This first sustained study of Lawrence and science shows how posthuman conceptions of a material kinship between humans, animals and machines can transform our understanding of Lawrences work and of its complex relationship with scientific epistemologies. Through detailed readings of evolutionary philosophy, and of the new Bergsonism of Deleuze and others, Wallace provides a radical reappraisal of Lawrence in terms of an antihumanist (or posthumanist) humanism (Hardt and Negri). Review This ambitious and wide-ranging book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Lawrence and in contemporary debates about the posthuman. Wallace reassesses Lawrences 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, UKA 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 Lawrences 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. – EnglishWallace reading of Lawrence suggests some of the ways in which Lawrences imagining of the posthuman might lead to a new, utopian accommodation between human and machine….Jeff Wallaces wonderfully elegant new book. – Textual Practice

Release Date: 28-06-2005

Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English

Edition: 1st ed. 2005

Number Of Pages: 275