Darwinism and Lawrence's quest for regeneration: 'a new conception of what it means, to live'. Regeneration, the rejection of eugenics, and Rananim in Australia. Lawrence decides to travel to Australia. Imagining Australia: 'The Vicar's Garden', The White Peacock, The Daughter-in-Law, 'The Primrose Path', The Lost Girl, Aaron's Rod, and Mr Noon. 'Pommy', 'Pommygranate', and 'Pommigrant' in Kangaroo: Mr and Mrs Somers, the amateur emigrants. Aspects of degeneration in Kangaroo - 'A novel, shot with a wayward beauty'. 'Kangaroo' and the spirit of Australia. The race for the bush: the Australian Aboriginal presence and British race regeneration in Kangaroo and The Boy in the Bush. Matriarchy, mates and bigamy in The Boy in the Bush. The aristocrat in the bush: some textual origins for the questing hero in The Boy in the Bush. Out of place: colonial Australians in St. Mawr. Last words: 'Preface to Black Swans', 'The Hand', Lady Chatterley's Lover, 'Eve in the Land of Nod', P.R. Stephensen - Mandrake press and 'Introduction to Pansies', Mimosa Letters.
Biography
David Game is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
"D. H. Lawrence’s Australia is a model of scholarly research, wide-ranging in its reference, written in a lively and accessible style. It is likely to be the most authoritative book on the subject for some time to come." – Neil Roberts, JDHLS 2016
