Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1928
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Class conflict, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Manners or customs, 1910’s, 1920’s, England or English people, War, Adultery, Illegitimacy, London, Ethics, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Pollution, Industrialization
- Locales: London, England, Venice, Italy, Dresden, Germany
The Work
In this story Constance Chatterley is married to Sir Clifford Chatterley, a wealthy older man whose paralysis from war wounds has left him sexually impotent. As Lady Chatterley enters into a passionate affair with the gamekeeper, the novel focuses on their passionate couplings, often describing them in graphic detail, and using language considered taboo in literature when the book was published.
Opponents of this novel have identified four aspects of the book that they regard as “obscene”: its portrayal of a woman as a sexually aggressive being; its...
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