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D. H. Lawrence: "Sons and Lovers." Penguin Critical Studies

D. H. Lawrence: "Sons and Lovers." Penguin Critical Studies D. H . Lawrence: “Sons and Lowers. Penguin Critical Studies. By Brian Finney. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1990. 121 pp. $4.95, paper. Brian Finney’s study of Sons and Lovers “is primarily written for the undergraduate student first encountering the novel” (p. 31). Finney, working within the length and format limitations prescribed by the Penguin Critical Studies series, has accomplished his task skillfully and altogether professionally. He communicates his easy command of the novel with clarity and conciseness. Undergraduates will profit from the book, and so will their professors. Finney devotes individual chapters to an array of critical approaches: genesis; genre; the psychoanalytic perspective; history, class and society; Lawrence and women; structure, theme and form; narrative voice and focus; character; symbolic motifs. Though these categories overlap, Finney manages never to repeat himself. Obviously he is smuggling in literary theory, but he mercifully avoids the “often off-putting technical jargon that accompanies such theory” (p. 3). He teaches the student that a complex work of fiction is available to all such approaches. Even better, he makes it clear that each perspective, while it has the power to illuminate the novel, also has its limitations. Finney’s book can be taken as an http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History Duke University Press

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1990 by University of Washington
ISSN
0026-7929
eISSN
1527-1943
DOI
10.1215/00267929-51-4-567
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D. H . Lawrence: “Sons and Lowers. Penguin Critical Studies. By Brian Finney. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1990. 121 pp. $4.95, paper. Brian Finney’s study of Sons and Lovers “is primarily written for the undergraduate student first encountering the novel” (p. 31). Finney, working within the length and format limitations prescribed by the Penguin Critical Studies series, has accomplished his task skillfully and altogether professionally. He communicates his easy command of the novel with clarity and conciseness. Undergraduates will profit from the book, and so will their professors. Finney devotes individual chapters to an array of critical approaches: genesis; genre; the psychoanalytic perspective; history, class and society; Lawrence and women; structure, theme and form; narrative voice and focus; character; symbolic motifs. Though these categories overlap, Finney manages never to repeat himself. Obviously he is smuggling in literary theory, but he mercifully avoids the “often off-putting technical jargon that accompanies such theory” (p. 3). He teaches the student that a complex work of fiction is available to all such approaches. Even better, he makes it clear that each perspective, while it has the power to illuminate the novel, also has its limitations. Finney’s book can be taken as an

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Published: Jan 1, 1990

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