Book Chapters by Andrew Keese
D. H. Lawrence, Technology, and Modernity, edited by Indrek Manniste, Bloomsbury, 2019
In the final phase of his philosophical musings, D. H. Lawrence increasingly focused on the indiv... more In the final phase of his philosophical musings, D. H. Lawrence increasingly focused on the individual versus society. He sought to guide society to respect the individual by examining the nature of what it means to be a human, one that has both mental and physical natures or consciousnesses. In Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) and Pansies (1929), Lawrence worries about humankind’s constant shift toward mental consciousness, often to the detriment of what he called blood consciousness. In both works, he presents an extreme version of mental consciousness via imagined future technologies that would make aspect of the physical side of humans irrelevant. He pleads for balance and presents the love affair between Connie Chatterley and Oliver Mellors as an example of what people should strive for in their lives. Lawrence’s brief use of futuristic technologies precedes that of friend Aldous Huxley’s expanded treatment of similar concepts. For each of the writers, advances in technology pose risks that should be fully considered before being fully deployed.
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D. H. Lawrence: New Theoretical Perspectives and Cultural Translation, edited by Simonetta de Filippis, Cambridge Scholars , 2016
D. H. Lawrence, especially in his leadership novels, concerns himself with the idea of the nation... more D. H. Lawrence, especially in his leadership novels, concerns himself with the idea of the nation and what brings people together. While the principle subject matter in The Plumed Serpent (1926), the last of his leadership novels, is religion, its principle aim is to show how the once powerful people of Mexico, who had been conquered and colonized and who were languishing in a confused and depressed state, could reclaim some of what the Aztecs lost to the Spanish. Based upon what he presents in this novel, Lawrence sensed what contemporary postcolonial theorists have noted, which is that a decolonized people cannot dial the clock back and pretend that they had never been colonized. In The Plumed Serpent, the people of Mexico are not strictly Aztec, and they are not Spanish, the country that had initially conquered the territory. They are some of both but neither. They are a third thing, as postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha would say, a hybrid. Lawrence experiments with a revival of the old Quetzalcoatl religion of the Aztecs in the novel to change the dynamic of the Mexican hybridity in order to inject a new sense of nation, one not tethered to Europe. This experiment, led by the characters Ramón and Cipriano, does not reject Christianity outright; it incorporates it into the new Quetzalcoatl movement. Lawrence’s new nation of Mexico becomes a new kind of hybrid, one in which its native religious heritage is dominant but still accepting of its European heritage, as well. This essay draws upon the theories of hybridity by Bhabha, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Robert Young to help explain how Lawrence engages with hybridity and, ultimately, what his experiment can mean for other decolonized peoples and how they might inject new spirit into their countries.
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Journal Articles by Andrew Keese
D. H. Lawrence Studies (20.2), 2012
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Journal of South Texas English Studies (2.2), 2011
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D. H. Lawrence Review (38.2), 2013
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Articles by Andrew Keese
The Year's Work in English Studies, 2018
This chapter has 8 sections: 1. General; 2 Pre-1945 Fiction; 3. Post-1945 Fiction; 4. Pre-1950 Dr... more This chapter has 8 sections: 1. General; 2 Pre-1945 Fiction; 3. Post-1945 Fiction; 4. Pre-1950 Drama; 5. Post-1950 Drama; 6. British Poetry 1900–1950; 7 British Poetry Post-1950; 8. Irish Poetry. Section 1 is by Matthew Levay; section 2(a) is by Andrew Radford; section 2(b) is by Caroline Krzakowski; section 2(c) is by Maria-Daniella Dick; section 2(d) is by Andrew Keese; section 2(e) is by Catriona Livingstone; section 3(a) is by Hannah Tweed; section 3(b) is by Samuel Cooper and William Baker; section 4 is by Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín; section 5 is by Graham Saunders and William Baker; section 6 is by Matthew Creasy; section 7 is by Karl O’Hanlon; section 8 is by Adam Hanna.
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D. H. Lawrence, Technology, and Modernity
In the final phase of his philosophical musings, D. H. Lawrence increasingly focused on the indiv... more In the final phase of his philosophical musings, D. H. Lawrence increasingly focused on the individual versus society. He sought to guide society to respect the individual by examining the nature of what it means to be a human, one that has both mental and physical natures or consciousnesses. In Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) and Pansies (1929), Lawrence worries about humankind’s constant shift toward mental consciousness, often to the detriment of what he called blood consciousness. In both works, he presents an extreme version of mental consciousness via imagined future technologies that would make aspect of the physical side of humans irrelevant. He pleads for balance and presents the love affair between Connie Chatterley and Oliver Mellors as an example of what people should strive for in their lives. Lawrence’s brief use of futuristic technologies precedes that of friend Aldous Huxley’s expanded treatment of similar concepts. For each of the writers, advances in technology pose risks that should be fully considered before being fully deployed.
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The Year's Work in English Studies
This chapter has eight sections 1. General; 2. Fiction Pre-1945; 3. Fiction Post-1945; 4. Drama P... more This chapter has eight sections 1. General; 2. Fiction Pre-1945; 3. Fiction Post-1945; 4. Drama Pre-1950; 5. Drama Post-1950; 6. British Poetry Pre-1950; 7. British Poetry Post-1950; 8. Modern Irish Poetry. Section 1 is by Shawna Ross; section 2(a) is by Francesca Bratton; Section 2(b) will resume in 2022; section 2(c) is by Georgina Binnie; section 2(d) is by Andrew Keese; section 2(e) is by Joshua Phillips; section 3(a) is by Mark West; section 3(b) is by Samuel Cooper; section 4(a) is by Sophie Stringfellow; section 4(b) is by Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín; section 5 is by Graham Saunders; section 6(a) is by Noreen Masud; section 6(b) is by Matthew Creasy; section 7 is by Alex Alonso; section 8 is by Jack Quin.
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The Year's Work in …, 2007
... There are succinct, instructive entries on all the best-known authorsVirginia Woolf, Rosamun... more ... There are succinct, instructive entries on all the best-known authorsVirginia Woolf, Rosamund Lehmann, Agatha Christie, Enid Blyton, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Vera Brittain, Storm Jameson, Barbara Cartland, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Nancy Cunard, and Jean Rhys, as ...
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism
Leslie Stephen was an English author and editor who contributed significantly to the science-reli... more Leslie Stephen was an English author and editor who contributed significantly to the science-religion debate in the latter part of the Victorian period. Father of modernist author Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) and artist Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), he was a long-time editor of the popular literary periodical Cornhill Magazine and the Dictionary of National Biography. He was also a noted mountaineer, having served as president of the Alpine Club and editor of the Alpine Journal.
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The Year's Work in English Studies
This chapter has eight sections 1. General. 2 British Fiction Pre-1945; 3. British Fiction 1945 t... more This chapter has eight sections 1. General. 2 British Fiction Pre-1945; 3. British Fiction 1945 to the Present; 4. Pre-1950 Drama; 5. Post-1950 Drama; 6. British Poetry 1900–1950; 7. British Poetry Post-1950; 8. Irish Poetry. Section 1 is by Matthew Levay; section 2(a) is by Francesca Bratton; section 2(b) is by Caroline Krzakowski; section 2(c) is by Sophie Corser; section 2(d) is by Andrew Keese; section 2(e) is by Catriona Livingstone; section 3(a) is by Mark West; section 3(b) is by Samuel Cooper; section 4(a) is by Rebecca D’Monte; section 4(b) is by Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín; section 5 is by Graham Saunders and William Baker; section 6(a) is by Noreen Masud; section 6(b) is by Matthew Creasy; section 7 is by Alex Alonso; section 8 is by Karl O’Hanlon.
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