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Eugene Goodheart. D. H. Lawrence: The Utopian Vision.(Book review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20060622
Author:Mutch, Deborah

Eugene Goodheart. D. H. Lawrence: The Utopian Vision. 1963. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2006. xviii + 190pp. $24.95

Eugene Goodheart's reading of the utopian objective in Lawrence's literature is a reprint of his 1963 publication. The author takes a thematic approach which rejects the book-by-book study of Lawrence's output, and this structure allows Goodheart to put Lawrence's vision of the perfection of the human into context with the philosophies and ideologies of Nietzsche, Freud, and Blake. By taking the thematic approach, the author reveals the ideological foundations ...

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