Cosmopolitan Love Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

Love, and the different manifestations of it, is a common theme in literature around the world. In Cosmopolitan Love, Sijia Yao examines the writings of D. H. Lawrence, a British writer whose literature focused primarily on interpersonal relationships in domestic settings, and Eileen Chang, a Chines...

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Main Author: Yao, Sijia (auth)
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Language:English
Published: University of Michigan Press 2023
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