D.H. Lawrence's Nostalgia and Longing for Life in Return to Bestwood
Authors
Xiuzhi Zhang
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Xiuzhi Zhang
Available Online January 2018.
- DOI
- 10.2991/sser-17.2018.13How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- D.H. Lawrence; Return to Bestwood; Nostalgia; Longing for life
- Abstract
D.H. Lawrence's Return to Bestwood is a short prose with a strong nostalgia. The paper mainly analyzes Lawrence's nostalgia and his longing for life in Return to Bestwood. It expresses Lawrence 's eagerness for returning home and his yearning for his hometown, his long for a healthy life as well as his voices on his melancholy mood for his native land. The destruction of natural landscape and the changes of human nature in his hometown made him depressed and even urged him to brood on the value of life. The main purpose is to arouse people's awareness of life so that they can live an energetic life.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Xiuzhi Zhang PY - 2018/01 DA - 2018/01 TI - D.H. Lawrence's Nostalgia and Longing for Life in Return to Bestwood BT - Proceedings of the 2017 7th International Conference on Social science and Education Research (SSER2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 62 EP - 65 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/sser-17.2018.13 DO - 10.2991/sser-17.2018.13 ID - Zhang2018/01 ER -