... often dark and threatening, and continually thrown into contradistinction with the reshaping of industrial development, particularly mining. The Rainbow can be analysed as a social and historical novel[1] and Women in Love's satirical treatment of café life in bohemian London is forcefully urban and contemporary. Timelessness is Lawrence is not simply something that permeates all of history, but rather a true escape from history: a definite function of the Modernist condition. As Ursula says: "I hate the present - but I don't want the past to take it's place."[2] Neither it is homogenous: just as every love affair depends on the individuality of the lovers, every age has an individual temperament. Lawrence's concern in the Brangwensaga is to chart the emergence of modernity, and watch modernity struggle for a saviour. Essentially, embodied in these two novels is the search for a new religion. Not content to merely shore up ...

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