Sep 5, 2008
Kangaroo | Kangaroo
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The early 1920’s, in the period following World War I
- Setting: Sydney, Australia, and the immediately surrounding area
- Principal Characters: Richard Lovat Somers, Harriet Somers, Jack Callcott, Victoria Callcott, Benjamin Kangaroo Cooley
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Freedom, Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Love or romance, Nature, Authors or writers, Marriage, 1910’s, 1920’s, Spiritual life or spirituality, Emotions, Australia or Australians
- Locales: Australia, Sydney, Australia
The Novel
The dynamic marriage relationship between Richard Lovat Somers and his wife, Harriet, is the
central concern of this novel. As with all the important marriages in the novels of D. H. Lawrence,
it is a constantly changing relationship that alternates between being nourishing and life-giving to each
individual, on the one hand, and being destructive and emotionally suffocating on the other. As is also
typical of Lawrence, the relationship is characterized by a great intensity. At times, that emotional and
spiritual intensity completely engulfs the individual selves of...
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