D.h. Lawrence and the Phallic Imagination: Essays On Sexual Identity and Feminist Misreading [signed] [first edition]

This book aims to interpret five fictional works of D.H. Lawrence through the novelist's fundamental notions about sexual identity and self-definition. Peter Balbert considers related patterns of what he calls feminist misreadings and some suggestive speculations by Norman Mailer on a recognizable dialectic of love, sex and ego in Lawrence's art. The author attempts to respond to the revisionist attacks on Lawrence and to highlight the profundity of his achievement.