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Wednesday 18th November 2015, 7pm - 8.30pm
Neil Roberts is professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Sheffield and honorary professor of D.H. Lawrence studies at the University of Nottingham. He will be discussing Lawrence’s struggle to reconcile the conflicting cultures which formed his life and work.
Growing up in a mining family, but closer to his mother who read Flaubert and Meredith than to his father who struggled to read the local paper, Lawrence had a 'second home' with the Chambers, another working-class family who read Hardy together and subscribed to the English Review. The culture that he absorbed through these channels was vital to his formation, but he was ambivalent about the idea of culture and used working-class speech is a mark of emotional authenticity. This event forms part of the ‘Being Human’ Festival of Humanities.
D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre
Free; booking recommended
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