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Lawrence's The Rainbow.(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20020922
Author:Elhefnawy, Nader

D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow (1915) was notorious in its day for its frank treatment of human sexuality. Although the British government cited "obscenity" as its reason for suppressing the book, a minority of scholars argue that the real reason was Lawrence's politics, as reflected in the novel. Although Lawrence did not attack the war per se in the book, he commonly attacked the foundations of industrial civilization, in particular nationalism and the idea of the nation-state. He does this specifically in his examinations of the relationships between Lydia and Paul Lensky, and ...

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