The Narrative of Place in The Lost Girl
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It is significant that Lawrence read Arnold Bennett’s Anna of the Five Towns when he was writing his first attempt at The Lost Girl in Italy. There are many parallels between the two novels in terms of narrative. The Lost Girl, however, is an attempt to create an inner language for a modern girl from a declining industrial town in the Midlands and, by doing so, Lawrence inverts the structure of Bennett’s narrative of the Midlands. This critical response to Bennett is enacted in two ways. Firstly, he introduces various kinds of foreignness into English society and, in The Lost Girl, Italy comes to stand as the mediating Other which channels the within and without. Secondly, Lawrence writes against Bennett’s claustrophobic mode of realism. Alvina is a new type of woman who needs a new type of form which her home-place is unable to furnish. In order to break from the conscious form of realism, there are two different kinds of narrative of the primitive in the novel: Alvina’s unconscious narrative of primitivism and Ciccio’s narrative which essentially counters that of Alvina. The latter is dominated by the former and for the most part silenced by it, meaning that its presence in the text is feeble and uncertain, and yet Ciccio’s narrative is not without the concrete historical context of the place, Pescocalscio in Italy. For Lawrence, place is not a passive stage for human activity as it is for Bennett. Place, for Lawrence, is what takes place, an event marked by openness, movement and change.
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It is significant that Lawrence read Arnold Bennett’s Anna of the Five Towns when he was writing his first attempt at The Lost Girl in Italy. There are many parallels between the two novels in terms of narrative. The Lost Girl, however, is an attempt to create an inner language for a modern girl from a declining industrial town in the Midlands and, by doing so, Lawrence inverts the structure of Bennett’s narrative of the Midlands. This critical response to Bennett is enacted in two ways. Firstly, he introduces various kinds of foreignness into English society and, in The Lost Girl, Italy comes to stand as the mediating Other which channels the within and without. Secondly, Lawrence writes against Bennett’s claustrophobic mode of realism. Alvina is a new type of woman who needs a new type of form which her home-place is unable to furnish. In order to break from the conscious form of realism, there are two different kinds of narrative of the primitive in the novel: Alvina’s unconscious narrative of primitivism and Ciccio’s narrative which essentially counters that of Alvina. The latter is dominated by the former and for the most part silenced by it, meaning that its presence in the text is feeble and uncertain, and yet Ciccio’s narrative is not without the concrete historical context of the place, Pescocalscio in Italy. For Lawrence, place is not a passive stage for human activity as it is for Bennett. Place, for Lawrence, is what takes place, an event marked by openness, movement and change.
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