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In the first chapter Humphries introduces the importance of ‘journeying’ in Lawrence’s major novels, Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), The Plumed Serpent (1926) and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), and argues that transport in his fiction reflects the writers’ engagement with an early twentieth century culture in crisis and rapid transition. He discusses how transport not only enframes the human journey, but also synthesizes the mechanisms of travel with the dynamics of personal and cultural transition. Setting Lawrence’s fiction against the technological and historical shifts of the period, the chapter positions transport both literally and metaphorically at the centre of the writer’s concerns about transition and explores his ambivalence toward mobility in a world where the increasing speed and access of travel threatens to mechanize and dehumanize. |
