Lady Chatterley’s Green World: A Frygian Reading of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Abstract

"In some ways, it is almost difficult to imagine there is anything new to say about Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and yet, the novel continues to arouse readers and demand attention. Each adaptation highlights a new aspect of the text, for instance, while still highlighting some of the canonical moments from the text. This article seeks to consider the role of place in the novel, and more particularly draws on Northrop Frye’s notion of the 'green world,' as much as an actual place as a powerful energy that both renews and gives life. In my reading of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, I frame the green world as a sexual and erotic landscape that is essential to the novel, while also, and importantly, reflecting on D.H. Lawrence’s own writings on sexuality, notably his notion of 'sex in the head.'"