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The Ethics of Romanticism

By: Laurence S. Lockridge

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Laurence Lockridge argues that a focus on the ethical dimension of literature is the single most powerful strategy for structuring a writer's work as a whole, and that it can even prove congenial. He gives original, interrelated readings of eight major British Romantic writers.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521352568

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9780521352567

Coleridge the Moralist

By: Laurence S. Lockridge

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Coleridge the Moralist

By: Laurence S. Lockridge

This rigorously argued yet deftly written book defines and analyzes Coleridge's moral vision as it reveals itself in his life, thought, and poetry. Based on the entire corpus of his writings, it includes much unpublished or previously unanalyzed primary source material, such as the late notebooks and the Opus Maximum manuscript. Mr. Lockridge considers Coleridge to be one of the great British moralists, and he argues that much of his work is characterized by an uncommon density of thought and an imaginative assimilation of theory to practice. Tracing Coleridge's evolution as a moralist, he treats with close attention Coleridge's writings on such subjects as freedom, will, duty, self-realization, pleasure, suffering, dread, and evil. By bringing together related fragments, he has given coherent structure to the moral thought of a major Romantic writer.

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Cornell University Press

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1501744186

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9781501744181

Shade of the Raintree

The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr. , Author of Raintree County

By: Larry Lockridge,Laurence S. Lockridge

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Shade of the Raintree

The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr. , Author of Raintree County

By: Larry Lockridge,Laurence S. Lockridge

Raintree County, the first novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr., was the publishing event of 1948. Excerpted in Life magazine, it was a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection, won MGM's Novel Award and a movie deal, and stood at the top of the nation's bestseller lists. Unfortunately, Lockridge's first novel was also his last. Two months after its publication the 33-year-old author from Bloomington, Indiana, took his own life. His son Larry was five years old at the time. Shade of the Raintree is Larry's search for an understanding of his father's baffling act. In this powerfully narrated biography, Larry Lockridge uncovers a man of great vitality, humor, love, and visionary ambition, but also of deep vulnerability. The author manages to combine a son's emotional investments with a sleuth's dispassionate inquiry. The result is an exhilarating, revelatory narrative of an American writer's life. With a new preface by the author, this 2014 paperback edition marks 100 years since the birth of Ross Lockridge, Jr.

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0253012813

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9780253012814

Shade of the Raintree

The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County

By: Laurence S. Lockridge

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The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County

By: Laurence S. Lockridge

Ross Lockridge, Jr.'s novel, Raintree County, was the publishing event of 1948. Excerpted in Life magazine, the novel was the Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection, winner of the enormous MGM Novel Award, and first on the nation's bestseller lists. Many years later, Larry Swindell, the syndicated critic, would write that "no myth is more imposing than the Great American Novel; but if it is truly unattainable, I believe that Ross Lockridge made closer approach than any other writer has, before or since". It was Lockridge's first novel and his last. Two months after its publication, the thirty-three-year-old author from Indiana took his own life, leaving a wife and four children. His son Larry was five years old at the time. Shade of the Raintree is a son's search for an understanding of his father's baffling act. It is also the moving story of what it is like to grow up in the wake of a family tragedy, and to grow up with a novel instead of a father. In this powerfully narrated biography, Larry Lockridge uncovers a life of great vitality, humor, love, and visionary ambition - but also of deep vulnerability. Ross Lockridge embodied so many of a writer's aspirations and fates - from the sudden vision of a work that might answer to ambition, to the all-consuming act of composition over months and years, to the dislocations of sudden fame and wealth, to the question that dogs every writer, What next? This is a story of the pride and generosity that attend the act of writing, and the terrible depletion that often follows. Shade of the Raintree is extraordinary in the way its author manages to combine a son's emotional investments with a sleuth's dispassionate inquiry. The result is anexhilarating, revelatory narrative of a life that was, in some ways, an allegory of the American writer. Raintree County is being republished by Penguin Books simultaneously with Shade of the Raintree. Even for those who have never read the novel, this biography offers a remarkable portrait of how artists may put themselves at risk in creating worlds of wonder and humanity.

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Book's by Laurence S. Lockridge

The Ethics of Romanticism

The Ethics of Romanticism

Coleridge the Moralist

Coleridge the Moralist

Shade of the Raintree

Shade of the Raintree

Shade of the Raintree

Shade of the Raintree

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