D H Lawrence and Pre-Einsteinian Modernist Relativity

First edition, first impression.  xii, 168pp, with occasional black and white illustrations.  Glazed pictorial boards.  8vo.  Very slightly bruised at spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  

D H Lawrence met Albert Einstein in Baden-Baden in 1921 but his interest in relativity was more deep-seated.  Lawrence’s first response to Einstein’s theory of relativity, although he liked the man himself, was ambivalent, perhaps because of the influence of earlier, Victorian relativists such as Darwin, T H Huxley and Ernst Haeckel and modernist artists such as Picasso and Duchamp.  This book examines their influences on some of his major works – Women in Love, The Lost Girl, The Fox – and how Lawrence’s interpretation of relativity changed.