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Otto Gross Redivivus – Lady Chatterley Revisited

Published/Copyright: March 15, 2014
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Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
From the journal Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Volume 52 Issue 2

Abstract

Otto Gross (1877-1920), psychiatrist from Graz and apostle of free love in a modern matriarchal utopia, had a short but very intensive affair with Frieda Weekley, née Richthofen, before she met D.H. Lawrence. This experience affected profoundly Frieda’s relation with Lawrence. Brenda Maddox thinks that Frieda “UnEnglished” young Lawrence’s sense of sexuality. This finds expression in his late novels, particularly in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, where Otto Gross evidently supplied the model for Connie’s lover Mellors. Considering the far-reaching consequences the acquittal of this novel from the charge of pornography in the much publicized trial of 1960 had on the presentation of sex in the modern novel, the role played by Otto Gross in this context deserves at least a footnote in the history of literature.

Online erschienen: 2014-03-15
Erschienen im Druck: 2004-04

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  3. Editorial
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  11. Die Autoren dieses Heftes
https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2004.52.2.141

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Inhalt
  3. Editorial
  4. ‘Poor Negro-Girl,’ ‘Little Black Boy’: Constructing Childhood in Eighteenth-Century Slave Narratives, Abolitionist Propaganda and Postcolonial Novels
  5. Das Ende der republikanischen Maschine: Technik und Fortschritt in Edward Bellamys Looking Backward (1888) und Equality (1897)
  6. Otto Gross Redivivus – Lady Chatterley Revisited
  7. Opening the Gates of Pandemonium: Simulacra of Apocalypse in Nathanael West’s A Cool Million and The Day of the Locust
  8. Testing Stephen Greenblatt’s New Historicism
  9. Buchbesprechungen
  10. Bucheingänge
  11. Die Autoren dieses Heftes
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