Working with Lawrence: Texts, Places, Contexts

Working with Lawrence draws together a representative selection of essays by the late Peter Preston, one time Honorary Lecturer in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham and founder of its D. H. Lawrence Research Centre. The essays adopt a range of approaches, drawing closely on textual, biographical and bibliographical sources whilst engaging with genetic and comparative criticism, and reception studies. They are distinguished by their author’s wide-ranging and comprehensive understanding of Lawrence’s aesthetic, political and cultural positioning, and by his characteristically meticulous attention to textual detail and sensitivity to the ambition and effects of Lawrence’s writings.