Al-Dabbagh (English literature, United Arab Emirates U.) argues that the author of Lady Chatterly's Lover and many other novels was guided by an anti-socialist, fascist outlook that came out of
an intellectual milieu in which British literary intellectuals were isolated from the socialist workers' movement in the context of imperial Britain and thus tended to divide among
social-imperialists on the one hand, and reactionaries and potential fascists on the other. After discussing the development of this milieu, Al-Dabbagh interrogates Lawrence's outlook on
imperialism and his attitude towards socialism, particularly in his more overtly political novels. He then discusses such themes in Lawrence's writing as contempt for man as a social being and
the existential division of human beings into higher and lower creatures. He further examines Lawrence's relationships with other writers around him, arguing that their writings were a
manifestation of the decay of imperialist culture that continues to the present, and explores the ways that critics have sought to hide Lawrence's politics. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc.,
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