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From Organic Nature to Secular Apocalypse in D. H. Lawrence`s Central Novels
( Adina Ciugureanu ) 한국로렌스학회 2016 D.H. 로렌스 연구 Vol.24 No.1
The article discusses Lawrence’s view on nature from the Romantic perspective to the ‘apocalyptic’ image caused by forceful industrialism and Machine-Man rise, in rural and urban areas. Having studied botany at the university and looking upon man as part of an organic universe (the Romantic view), D. H. Lawrence becomes one of the pioneers of the “literature of environmental consciousness” (Janik 107), which gives support to the reading of his work through eco-critical lenses. Thus, the article focuses on the paradigm shift, which one may notice in his fiction, from nature to culture, from country to town and from farming to industry, leading both to the ruining of nature, as envisaged by the Romantics, and to the fall of man from cyclical time to linear history, as the effect of modernity. Though Lawrence rejects the theological view of an imminent, oncoming End and shifts from looking upon man and nature as a whole (Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow) to perceiving them in conflict (Women in Love), the nihilistic perspective in Women in Love (as a possible influence by Nietzsche), builds the argument for the envisaging of a secular apocalypse to replace the Biblical one. Yet, however scary nature apocalypse may be, Lawrence’s portrayal of it is, I argue, non-tragic and imbued with strong ironical tones.