D. H. Lawrence, Transport and Cultural Transition 'A Great Sense of
This book discusses D. H. Lawrence’s interest in, and engagement with, transport as a literal and metaphorical focal point for his ontological concerns. Focusing on five key novels, this book explores issues of mobility, modernity and gender. First e
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Andrew F. Humphries
D. H. Lawrence, Transport and Cultural Transition ‘A Great Sense of Journeying’
Andrew F. Humphries Faculty of Education Canterbury Christ Church University Canterbury, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-50810-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50811-5
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To Caroline, Gemma and Daniel
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish particularly to thank Professor Adrienne Gavin for her supervision of my original doctoral research on Lawrence and her continued support as a colleague and editor on several literary projects. I owe so much to her guidance, her professionalism and her optimism. I would also like to thank my friend and colleague Professor Carolyn Oulton for her thought-provoking and influential responses to my early drafts of this work and I would like, also, to thank my colleagues in the Arts and Humanities and Education Faculties at Canterbury Christ Church University for their strategic support with time and finance to enable me to complete the book. Finally, I wish to thank my parents, John and Doreen Humphries, and my wife Caroline and two children, Gemma and Daniel, for their patience and interest, including the many outings to transport-related sites and museums. I would like, also, to remember my grandfather Charles French, who worked for London Transport and took my brother Ian and I as children to the London Transport Museum, the memories of which became very influential in my choice of
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