Expatriation, Snobbery, and Uncommon Commonness in Aaron’s Rod and Kangaroo
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This essay reads two of Lawrence’s post-war novels, Aaron’s Rod (1922) and Kangaroo (1923) as an expatriate’s books about expatriation, by considering their contrasting approaches to relations between narrative, time, and place. It is divided into two parts. Part 1 considers how Aaron’s Rod enacts a drama of travel and expatriation in a semi-picaresque narrative structure that plays movement across national borders against movement within those borders. The novel’s complex structure―coupled with its close attention to cultural geographies―also allows Lawrence to articulate persistent anxieties about snobbery and the commonplace that inform the novel’s sense of what might count as truly aristocratic. Ultimately, those anxieties are expressed not only in the novel’s content and narrative structure but even in its language. Part 2 shows how Lawrence extends his confrontation with these formal and thematic problems in Kangaroo. This book renews and heightens the pressure on Lawrence’s ideas about the aristocratic and the common, by reframing them in the context of a burgeoning ideological war between fascism and socialism. The narrative form and language of Kangaroo generate resistance to the standard terms―democracy vs. aristocracy, socialism vs. communism, nationalism vs. internationalism―in which public debates about the postwar world were typically conducted. By its verbal magic, especially by its use of simile as the figurative embodiment of a principle of perpetual migration, this novel also conjures a new vision of the living universe, slipping the noose (if only for a time) of self, or culture, or society.
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This essay reads two of Lawrence’s post-war novels, Aaron’s Rod (1922) and Kangaroo (1923) as an expatriate’s books about expatriation, by considering their contrasting approaches to relations between narrative, time, and place. It is divided into two parts. Part 1 considers how Aaron’s Rod enacts a drama of travel and expatriation in a semi-picaresque narrative structure that plays movement across national borders against movement within those borders. The novel’s complex structure―coupled with its close attention to cultural geographies―also allows Lawrence to articulate persistent anxieties about snobbery and the commonplace that inform the novel’s sense of what might count as truly aristocratic. Ultimately, those anxieties are expressed not only in the novel’s content and narrative structure but even in its language. Part 2 shows how Lawrence extends his confrontation with these formal and thematic problems in Kangaroo. This book renews and heightens the pressure on Lawrence’s ideas about the aristocratic and the common, by reframing them in the context of a burgeoning ideological war between fascism and socialism. The narrative form and language of Kangaroo generate resistance to the standard terms―democracy vs. aristocracy, socialism vs. communism, nationalism vs. internationalism―in which public debates about the postwar world were typically conducted. By its verbal magic, especially by its use of simile as the figurative embodiment of a principle of perpetual migration, this novel also conjures a new vision of the living universe, slipping the noose (if only for a time) of self, or culture, or society.
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