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Eros in the Sick Room: Phosphorescent Form and Aesthetic Ecstasy in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

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From: Journal of Narrative Theory : JNT
Date: 20080701
Author:Coates, Kimberly

[The infant] gathers [the mother's] mould into itself and transfer[s] her mould forever into its own deep unconscious psyche. (Lawrence, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious 31)

The novel is the one perfect medium for revealing to us the changing glimmer of our living relationships. The nove l can help us to live as no other utterance can help us. It can also pervert us as no other can. (Lawrence, "Morality and the Novel," First Version 245)

Soon after beginning D.H. Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers (1913), readers are taken to a moonlit garden in the heart of a dark coal-mining neighborhood ...

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