Provides accessible essays by leading international scholars, offering up-to-date insights into the key contexts to Lawrence's life, career and legacy.

Part I. Life Writing/Writing the Life: 1. Biographies Michael Squires; 2. The letters Keith Cushman; 3. The life in the writing John Worthen; Part II. The Literary Marketplace: 4. Book publishers Joyce Wexler; 5. Journals, magazines, newspapers Annalise Grice; 6. Private publication Andrew Harrison; Part III. Literary and Cultural Contexts: 7. Lawrence and his contemporaries Suzanne Hobson; 8. Literary realism Susan Reid; 9. Modernism Holly A. Laird; 10. The short story Dominic Head; 11. Novellas Bethan Jones; 12. Verse forms Christopher Pollnitz; 13. Theatre James Moran; 14. Travel writing, and writing about place Neil Roberts; 15. Philosophy Michael Bell; 16. Paintings Jack Stewart; Part IV. Social and Historical Contexts: 17. Class Ron Granofsky; 18. Religion Luke Ferretter; 19. Edwardian feminisms and suffragisms Elizabeth M. Fox; 20. Sex, sexuality, sexology Howard J. Booth; 21. The Great War Helen Wussow; 22. Psychoanalysis John Turner; 23. Science and technology Jeff Wallace; 24. Race and cultural difference Judith Ruderman; 25. Ecology Carrie Rohman; 26. Censorship Nancy L. Paxton; Part V. Critical Fortunes: 27. Lawrence and female authors/memoirists Carol Siegel; 28. F. R. Leavis David Ellis; 29. Feminism Marianna Torgovnick; 30. The Cambridge Edition Paul Eggert; 31. Lawrence and theory Garry Watson; Part VI. Creative Legacies: 32. Lawrence's influence on later writers Lee M. Jenkins; 33. Film adaptations Louis K. Greiff.