Death and the Author by David Ellis
Organised around a dramatic account of D. H. Lawrence's desperate struggle against tuberculosis, and of the bizarre events which followed his death, this book offers a series of often grimly humorous reflections on death and dying. Lawrence is the main focus throughout but there are references to a number of other famous literary consumptives.
David Ellis's book is graceful, grave and elegantly writtenFrequently witty and always well chosen in its detail, it ranges much more widely than its ostensible subject matter. * William Palmer, Literary Review *
Absorbing throughout * Laura Dietz, Times Literary Supplement *
If the subject is sombre, the account of Lawrence himself - great, complex, exasperating, brave - and the responses of his wife and various friends, are told with such verve and wit that I found myself laughing as I read.
A brilliant, humane book * Steven Poole, The Guardian *
Elegant, detailed and darkly humorous account of the demise of D H Lawrence. * Brian Dillon, Irish Times *
an elegant, detailed and darkly humorous account of the demise of DH Lawrence ... Ellis's biographical experiment is a profoundly instructive and moving success. * Brian Dillon, Irish Times *
Ellis has a fine, mordant sense of humour that plays eloquently with the theme of consumption, that knell also of Keats, Katherine Mansfield, Kafka and Chekhov. * Iain Finlayson, The Times *
a compelling book * Victoria Glendinning, The Spectator *
...replete with allusions...much factual detail with additional reverie on how people act in the face of death... * Karl Orend, Times Literary Supplement *
Absorbing throughout * Laura Dietz, Times Literary Supplement *
If the subject is sombre, the account of Lawrence himself - great, complex, exasperating, brave - and the responses of his wife and various friends, are told with such verve and wit that I found myself laughing as I read.
A brilliant, humane book * Steven Poole, The Guardian *
Elegant, detailed and darkly humorous account of the demise of D H Lawrence. * Brian Dillon, Irish Times *
an elegant, detailed and darkly humorous account of the demise of DH Lawrence ... Ellis's biographical experiment is a profoundly instructive and moving success. * Brian Dillon, Irish Times *
Ellis has a fine, mordant sense of humour that plays eloquently with the theme of consumption, that knell also of Keats, Katherine Mansfield, Kafka and Chekhov. * Iain Finlayson, The Times *
a compelling book * Victoria Glendinning, The Spectator *
...replete with allusions...much factual detail with additional reverie on how people act in the face of death... * Karl Orend, Times Literary Supplement *
David Ellis was born in Lancashire, educated at Downing College Cambridge, and is emeritus professor of English Literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury. During his teaching career he has spent considerable periods in France, Italy, Australia and the United States. In the academic year 1991-2, he was an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the National Humanities Research Center in North Carolina and in the autumn of 2003 a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study of La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Best known for this work on D. H. Lawrence, he has also published books on Wordsworth and Shakespeare and has a strong interest in comedy as well as in the art, science, and theory of biography. David Ellis is married with two daughters and now lives in Faversham, Kent.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199546657 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199546657 |
| Title | Death and the Author |
| Author | David Ellis |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2008-07-17 |
| Number of pages | 290 |
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