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Biblical Mythopoeia, Gendered War and Sexuality in D. H. Lawrence's ‘Samson and Delilah’
in Critical Survey
Author:
Irene Montori
Irene Montori
Adjunct Lecturer, University of Naples, Italy
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Abstract
Grouped together with modernism's most eminent authors, D. H. Lawrence has been appreciated for his idiosyncratic response to his time and literary modernism. A good deal of critical attention has been given to his contribution to modernist fiction and, in this context, the present article focuses on some crucial aspects of Lawrence's modernism not hitherto addressed in his short story ‘Samson and Delilah’ (1917), in England, My England (1922). By reading ‘Samson and Delilah’ through the lens of modernist mythopoeia, this article aims to highlight Lawrence's reformulation of the biblical story as a way to come to terms with gendered war in national and personal spheres.
Contributor Notes
Irene Montori is adjunct lecturer in English literature at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’ and post-doc research fellow at the University of Siena. Her main research interests include the influence of classical and biblical texts in English literature, the formation of the Renaissance sublime, and the concept of authorship in early modern and contemporary literature. She is the author of Milton, the Sublime and Dramas of Choice: Figures of Heroic and Literary Virtues (IASEMS Mariangela Tempera Book Prize, 2021).