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Love "conventional morality is under a »ban1, as the lovers a- chieve more than conventional sexual intercourse in mutual anal caresses.”(BOD 102) But let's not forget that the critics have stated this clearly, and not Lawrence. The texts of the novels are always foggy and the reason for this obscurity was evidently still Lawrence’s puritanism, which prevented him from facing conventional morality. I suggest that contemporary mores would not permit him to speak openly about “dark sex11 yet.
Chapter V LAURENCE AND PORNOGRAPHY (Critical Essays) 1 His (Lawrence’s) essays and 'philosophy* always came after he had worked out his ideas in fiction or poetry“(SLC 18), says H»T.Moore in Sex,, Literature, and Censor ship? and the author said that 1the novels and poems come unwatched out of one’s pen.**(FTU15) This seems to be the reason why his middle-period critical essays Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious came after his principal novels. And after his last novel he wrote his two last and most important critical essayss Pornography and Obscenity and A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover, in 1929. The second contains a profound critical explanation of the moral case raised by the "scandal'5 of Lady Chatterley. It was written in defence of the novel and its subject, an attack on the "censormorons", is a ratification of all his pronouncements on the subject of sex, literature, and censorship, and a repetition of the ideas presented in Lady Chatterley. The first essay, Pornography and Obscenity, is also a confirmation of his theories, but there are some fine arguments and fresh ideas about pornography and it seems to have been written to challenge the censors too. It is a very polemical essay. But the final Lawrence is the Lawrence of Ladv Chatterlev's Lover. Nothing he wrote after that novel re-
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Chapter V<br />
LAURENCE AND PORNOGRAPHY<br />
(Critical Essays)<br />
1 His (Lawrence’s) essays and 'philosophy* always came after<br />
he had worked out his ideas in fiction or poetry“(SLC 18), says<br />
H»T.Moore in Sex,, Literature, and Censor ship? and the author said<br />
that 1the novels and poems come unwatched out of one’s pen.**(FTU15)<br />
This seems to be the reason why his middle-period critical essays<br />
Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious<br />
came after his principal novels. And after his last novel he<br />
wrote his two last and most important critical essayss Pornography<br />
and Obscenity and A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover, in 1929.<br />
The second contains a profound critical explanation of the moral<br />
case raised by the "scandal'5 of Lady Chatterley. It was written<br />
in defence of the novel and its subject, an attack on the "censormorons",<br />
is a ratification of all his pronouncements on the subject<br />
of sex, literature, and censorship, and a repetition of the<br />
ideas presented in Lady Chatterley. The first essay, Pornography<br />
and Obscenity, is also a confirmation of his theories, but there<br />
are some fine arguments and fresh ideas about pornography and it<br />
seems to have been written to challenge the censors too. It is a<br />
very polemical essay. But the final Lawrence is the Lawrence of<br />
Ladv Chatterlev's Lover. Nothing he wrote after that novel re-
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