Howard J. Booth
University of Manchester, UK
D.H. Lawrence, William Morris and the Radical Tradition
The paper will make the case for examining Lawrence's relationship to political, rather than only religious, dissent. It sees Lawrence in terms of a line of socialist writing on art, work and social change. Looking at William Morris and late Lawrence, the particular focus is on the two surviving versions of Lawrence's 1927 review of Walter Wilkinson's The Peep Show and 'A Dream of Life' (called 'Autobiographical Fragment' in Phoenix and Late Essays and Articles).