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World War I Short Fiction - Charles L. Ross (essay date 1982)
Charles L. Ross (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: Ross, Charles L. “D. H. Lawrence and World War I on History and the ‘Forms of Reality’: The Case of England, My England.” Franklin Pierce Studies in Literature (1982): 11-21.
[In the following essay, Ross examines Lawrence's treatment of World War I in the two versions of his story “England, My England.”]
Historians are wary of using fiction as a source of historical knowledge. Thus, A. J. P. Taylor writes: “Most novels are really set twenty or thirty years back, whether avowedly or not. Thus Galsworthy, Joyce, and even, I think, D.H. Lawrence are purely prewar in spirit.”1 An historian's unease with the anachronistic spirit of fiction has its mirror image in the reluctance of many critics to view literature as an expression of history. Poetic justice aside, such a divorce of historical truth and literary truth misrepresents the intentions of a novelist like D.H....
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