The Rhetoric of the Unselfconscious in D. H. Lawrence

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The Lady Chatterley novels (and especially version 3 of the novel) have nearly always been assumed to be about sex, but they are primarily concerned with the experiences of the body; their narratives are attempting to find ways of making actual the feelings of the body (in particular, the sexual body) in the development of the relationship between Lady Constance Chatterley and her lover, Oliver Parkin/Mellors. After Lawrence met Frieda Weekley in 1912, sexual desire became for him the ultimate bodily experience ; and his concern with the way our experience of the body in the 'full conscious realisation of sex' (not in actual sexual acts) can be articulated is profound in these novels.