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Authorship British literature Appreciation Study and teaching British literature History 20th century British literature History 21st century British literature History and criticism English literature History and criticism Irish literature History 20th century Irish literature History 21st centurySummary: Certainly one of the most colorful and controversial writers of the 20th century, D. H. Lawrence's humble beginnings as a fragile child in a Nottingham mining town hardly foreshadowed the fame he would acquire through his writing. In this program, Lawrence biographer John Worthen and others who knew the writer discuss the author's life, his many love affairs, and his turbulent marriage to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this overview of D.H. Lawrence's life and work from the Famous Authors series, viewers are introduced to the conditions of the mining town in England in which Lawrence was born and to his relationship with his mother, both which reappear in Sons and Lovers and his other fiction. The film follows Lawrence and his wife Frieda through their many moves, the inspiration he gained from their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This story of innocent imagination destroyed by greed is a school classic. With John Mills and Valerie Hobson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The years between the World Wars generated self-doubt and ideological crisis as Britain contemplated the devastation of World War I and the decline of empire that would transform the British novel. "The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins," wrote D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover. This program examines the evolution of the British novel during the period 1919-39, spotlighting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011