D. H. Lawrence and 'Difference'

This important study from the prizewinning novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri explores D. H. Lawrence''s position as a foreigner in the English canon. Focussing on the poetry Chaudhuri examines how Lawrence''s works and Lawrence himself have been read and misread in terms of their difference. This is the first time that Lawrence''s poetry has been discussed in the light of post-colonial and post-structuralist theory; it is also the first time a leading post-colonial writer of his generation has taken as his subject a major canonical English writer and through him remapped the English canon as a site of difference.