D.H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman

Why was D.H. Lawrence preoccupied with the enigma of the human as thinking matter? This first sustained study of Lawrence and science shows how 'posthuman' conceptions of a material kinship between humans, animals and machines can transform our understanding of Lawrence's work and of its complex relationship with scientific epistemologies. Through detailed readings of evolutionary philosophy, and of the 'new Bergsonism' of Deleuze and others, Wallace provides a radical reappraisal of Lawrence in terms of an 'antihumanist (or posthumanist) humanism' (Hardt and Negri).

JEFF WALLACE is Principal Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan, UK. His previous, co-edited books are Charles Darwin's Origin of Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays, Raymond Williams Now, and Gothic Modernisms. He is an editor of the journal Key Words and of the book series Texts in Culture.