Acknowledgementsⅰ

Abbreviationsⅱ

Prefaceⅲ

前言ⅶ

Comments on the StudyChapter One Introduction

1.1    Lawrences Triplet (Experiences,philosophy and Works)

—Pursuing the Significance of Male 

1.2    Lady Chatterley’s Lover 

1.3    Significance of the Study

Chapter Two Literature Review

2.1    International Studies

2.1.1    Criticism from Male Critics

2.1.2    Criticism from Female Critics

2.2    Domestic Studies

2.3    Summary

Chapter Three Introduction to Theories 

3.1    Beauvoir‘s “Woman as Other for and by Men”

3.2    Spender’s “Patriarchal Order”

Chapter Four Women in the LCL

4.1    Women as Other for Men in Lawrences Patriarchal Order

4.1.1    Connies Mother— A “Cocksure Woman” as Other for Men in Society 

4.1.2    Hilda—A “Cocksure Woman” as Other for Men in Spirit

4.1.3    Bertha Coutts— A “Cocksure Woman” as Other for Men in Sexuality

4.2    Women as Other by Men in Lawrences Patriarchal Order

4.2.1    Mrs.Bolton— Not a “Cocksure Mother” but an Absolute Other by Men

4.2.2    Connie— A “Hensure Woman” as an Absolute Other by Men

4.3    Lawrences Gender Views

Chapter Five Conclusion

5.1    Findings of the Study

5.2    Reflections on Gender Equality

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Chapter One Introduction

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) is a prolific writer of the twentieth centuryDuring more than two decades of his writing,there are 14 novels (including 3 versions of Lady Chatterley),over 60 tales,11 complete volumes of poetry,10 plays and 14 nonfiction books (Popawski 211-214)He is highly claimed not only as a novelist,novella and short writer,but also as a poet,essayist,translator,dramatist and painterWhen compared to Ezra Pound,TSEliot,James Joyce and Virginia Woolf,Lawrences position on the literary map “at times,seemed far less secure than them” (Fernihough,“introduction” 3)In his books and essays,he expressed freely his extreme ideas on politics,marriage,society,education,religion and man and woman,often by narrating sexualitySo “everyone feels the need,at the outset,either to like him or to dislike him”(Torgovnick 33)

To those who like him,he is a genius,prophet and cultural iconEMForster calls him the greatest novelist of his generationFRLeavis devotes all his life to supporting him,making him become the ‘canon’ of English literature and appear with increasing frequency in school and university curricula in the 1950s (Fernihough,“introduction”4)Later,Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart from proletarian backgrounds view him as “the sole workingclass hero of modern English literature”(Baldick 263)

 To those who dislike him,he is one of the most controversial writersAs Eliot sums up,“Lawrences life as a story of spiritual pride,emotional sickness,selfdeception,and a kind of ignorance that would not have been remedied by an Oxbridge grooming” (qtdin Baldick 257)Feminists also attacks him more bitterly not only for his statement in a letter that his work for women would be “better than the suffrage”,but also for the misogyny of much of his work (qtdin Milne 200)Meanwhile,as a twentiethcentury writer,Lawrence was and is usually seen as being marginal to the modernism,for those socalled mainstream writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were almost uniformly hostile or condescending to him,but his apparently marginal position promotes him to “critically central” writer (Bell 179)

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