`a book distinguished by careful and detailed discrimination ... A book which sets up an intelligent and sympathetic dialogue between Lawrence and currently predominating critical theories and concerns is a rarity.'Times Literary Supplement

• The totalizing organic - Lawrence and facism; the fractured organic - Lawrence's aesthetics; analyzing the analyst - Lawrence's clash with Freud; Lawrence and Bloomsbury I - significant form; Lawrence and Bloomsbury II - art versus text; Lawrence and Bloomsbury III - Cezanne's apple; art and technology - Victorian predecessors; Lawrence and Heidegger I - the world as object; Lawrence and Heidegger II - the world as work of art; an "anti-imperialist" aesthetics; epilogue - an aesthetics of the body?

`a book distinguished by careful and detailed discrimination ... A book which sets up an intelligent and sympathetic dialogue between Lawrence and currently predominating critical theories and concerns is a rarity.'Times Literary Supplement

• The totalizing organic - Lawrence and facism; the fractured organic - Lawrence's aesthetics; analyzing the analyst - Lawrence's clash with Freud; Lawrence and Bloomsbury I - significant form; Lawrence and Bloomsbury II - art versus text; Lawrence and Bloomsbury III - Cezanne's apple; art and technology - Victorian predecessors; Lawrence and Heidegger I - the world as object; Lawrence and Heidegger II - the world as work of art; an "anti-imperialist" aesthetics; epilogue - an aesthetics of the body?

`a book distinguished by careful and detailed discrimination ... A book which sets up an intelligent and sympathetic dialogue between Lawrence and currently predominating critical theories and concerns is a rarity.'Times Literary Supplement

• The totalizing organic - Lawrence and facism; the fractured organic - Lawrence's aesthetics; analyzing the analyst - Lawrence's clash with Freud; Lawrence and Bloomsbury I - significant form; Lawrence and Bloomsbury II - art versus text; Lawrence and Bloomsbury III - Cezanne's apple; art and technology - Victorian predecessors; Lawrence and Heidegger I - the world as object; Lawrence and Heidegger II - the world as work of art; an "anti-imperialist" aesthetics; epilogue - an aesthetics of the body?