447 Lady Chatterley's Lover (with Saikat Majumdar)
The History of Literature
00:00
Is It a Lawrence Scholar, or a James Joyce Scholar?
I'm not actually a Lawrence scholar at all, in fact I wouldn't have anything scholarly to say about this book. The first novel I read was Sons and Lovers which is still similar to the Martin's Bill - it's considered as portrait of an artist. It kind of makes writers like Henry James or Ian Forster seem a little bit out of step with their time because Virginia Wolf and Bruce and Joyce are so avant-garde. He also suffers from people feel like he can be a little bit hectoring and a little bit demanding for people who are trying to push back on some of his notions of women. There's so much there, but often it's disturbing for
Transcript
Play full episode
