Compensatory Reversal and the Voluptuous Suffocation

Nightmare and Sexual Revenge in “The Border-Line”

Authors

  • Peter Balbert Trinity University Author

Keywords:

D. H. Lawrence, “The Border-Line”, Frieda Lawrence, John Middleton Murry, dreams and nightmare, Henry Fuseli

Abstract

The notorious imbroglio in London at the Café Royal in late December, 1923 involving D.H. Lawrence, J. Middleton Murry, and various friends is familiar to readers of modernist literature. Yet the substantial and catalytic importance of this event in the impinging context of Lawrence’s angry and insecure emotions both preceding and following that winter evening cannot be overstated and this analysis examines some of the aftermaths on D. H. Lawrence.

Author Biography

  • Peter Balbert, Trinity University

    Peter Balbert is Professor of English at Trinity University. He has published more than fifty essays on D.H. Lawrence and other modern and contemporary writers, and is the author of D.H. Lawrence and the Phallic Imagination and D.H. Lawrence and the Psychology of Rhythm, and is the co-editor of D.H. Lawrence: A Centenary Consideration. His most recent book, D.H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix: Intertextual Adventures in Conflict, Renewal, and Transcendence, was published by Cambridge Scholars.

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Published

2017-10-26

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Balbert, Peter. “Compensatory Reversal and the Voluptuous Suffocation: Nightmare and Sexual Revenge in ‘The Border-Line’”. The Mailer Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Oct. 2017, pp. 227–247, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/624.