D. H. Lawrence and Marriage

Mapping the “Logic of the Soul”

Authors

  • Raymond M. Vince Author

Keywords:

D. H. Lawrence, Peter Balbert, marriage, The Virgin and the Gipsy, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, literary influence

Abstract

Raymond M. Vince reviews Peter Balbert’s D. H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix: Intertextual Adventures in Conflict, Renewal, and Transcendence (Cambridge Scholars), which reads eight of Lawrence’s late works, from The Lost Girl to Lady Chatterley’s Lover, through close reading and psychobiography. Vince notes the book’s interest for Mailer scholars, especially a chapter pairing Lady Chatterley’s Lover with The Deer Park, and praises its reproductions of Lawrence’s paintings, its index, and its bibliography. He questions Balbert’s claim that marriage is the thematic center of Lawrence’s writing, preferring an eclectic approach to a continuously changing author, but judges the book a meticulous and useful study.

Author Biography

  • Raymond M. Vince

    Raymond M. Vince has taught American Literature & Writing, Religion, and History of Science & Mathematics for over twenty-five years—at Richmond College London, various Episcopal schools, The University of Tampa, USF, Eckerd College, & HCC. He earned graduate degrees in English Literature, Theology, and Logic & Scientific Method. He has published a book, War, Heroism, and Narrative (VDM 2008), a chapter on William Morris in Arthurian Writers (2008), and five articles in The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review and The Mailer Review.

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Published

2016-09-28

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016): 10th Anniversary Issue

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Vince, Raymond M. “D. H. Lawrence and Marriage: Mapping the ‘Logic of the Soul’”. The Mailer Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Sept. 2016, pp. 436–439, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/587.