Cuthbertson, Guy (2026) Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Yale University Press, London and New Haven. ISBN 9780300266375
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A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, tracing its life over the last century. D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is one of the best-known and most resonant works of the twentieth century. Originally considered obscene and unpublishable in numerous countries, its scandalous story of class divide and the English countryside is infamous. But, since the 1920s, we have repeatedly re-created Lady Chatterley, from film and TV to music and tourism. Guy Cuthbertson tells the colourful story of the novel’s journey through the last hundred years. He examines how the book has been read, adapted, and reimagined across the globe, from the United States to Japan, and explores the 1960 “Chatterley trial”—a key moment in the struggle for freedom of expression. It might have been burnt and derided, laughed at and defaced, but Lawrence’s novel has crept into all walks of life. Whether the book, or its influence, be good or bad, we live in a world that Lady Chatterley’s Lover helped to create.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Keywords: | English Literature, History, Literary Studies (twentieth and twenty-first century), Cultural History, Social History |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Guy Cuthbertson |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2026 15:41 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2026 15:41 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4936 |
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