Representation of Nature in D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf

Being modernist writers, D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf are both interested in the psychology of individuals. Although they differ in their ways of depiction, they employ natural imagery to depict the psychology of the individuals, which can be defined as their Romantic sensibility toward nature. In both writers, though nature is more central to Lawrence's works than to those of Woolf's, nature is of great importance in the creation and representation of characters. Through their contact with nature, their characters experience self-realization as they reveal their hidden selves and as they find ties between their selves and nature. More specifically, this book examines how Lawrence and Woolf depict nature in order to reveal the psychology of characters in relation to their experiencing self-realization in Lawrence's Women in Love (1920) and The Plumed Serpent (1926) and Woolf's The Voyage Out (1915) and Orlando: A Biography (1928).

Şule Akdoğan, Middle East Technical University (METU): Şule Akdoğan pursues her Ph.D. studies in English Literature. Currently, she works as a Research Assistant at METU. Her research interests are the novel and the literary theory.