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Nineteenth-Century Lives

Cambridge University Press, 2008

In this unique collection of essays, ten distinguished critics and biographers consider what it means to narrate a life. Their illustrative texts are largely taken from nineteenth-century biography, autobiography, and the novel, but narrative is the broader genre that unites their various inquiries. The principal issues are framed by Margaret Atwood, J. Hillis Miller, and Phyllis Rose. Atwood compares and contrasts the biographer and the ...

Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr.

6 reviews
Laurence Lockridge

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995

The Great American Novel
The picture in this book of Larry Lockridge, its author when he was little more than a baby, seems to me to reflect the childlike wisdom that recognizes an impending epic tragedy and that it may dominate his life. That tragedy was the death by his own hand of Larry's father, a man who was able to write a thousand plus page novel that is more of a lyric poem. Yet, some reviewers lightly ...

The Ethics of Romanticism
Laurence S. Lockridge

Cambridge University Press, 1989

In The Ethics of Romanticism Laurence Lockridge vigorously revives ethical criticism and at the same time brings to light the Romantics' profound engagement with ethical questions. He argues that a will to value is the pervasive motive of Romantic writers from Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and De Quincey to Shelley, Hazlitt, Keats and Byron. They articulate a compelling ethics that has had a significant influence on modern thought. Yet its ...