The Plumed Serpent (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Religion, Spiritual life or spirituality, Emotions, Mexico or Mexicans, Reincarnation, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: Mexico City, Mexico, Jalisco, Mexico
Places Discussed
*Mexico. Country in which the novel is set. Lawrence visited Mexico shortly before writing the novel looking, simultaneously, for a climate to help his failing health, an escape from the censorship he faced in England for his political views and for the overt sexuality of his novels, and, perhaps most important, an alternative to what he saw as the dead, “mechanistic” quality of European life.
The title The Plumed Serpent refers to the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, who functions in the novel as, among other things, a symbol for Mexico itself....
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