Lockridge family histories: looking for the raintree. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Lockridge family histories: looking for the raintree. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)
- Main Title:
- Lockridge family histories: looking for the raintree
- Authors:
- Sandweiss, Eric
- Abstract:
- Abstract: Novelist Ross Lockridge, Jr., killed himself months after the publication of his highly publicized novel, Raintree County . Why? This article seeks an answer in the writer's conflicted relationship to History: of his country, of his family (including his father, the best-known historian in his home state of Indiana), of his own grand ambitions. Lockridge had crafted a fictional hero, Johnny Shawnessy, who sought to 'hear the words before the words become History.' For the writer himself – and, subsequently, for his children, who carry on the family quest to reveal historical truth – History has proved a harder burden to overcome.
- Is Part Of:
- Rethinking history. Volume 21:Issue 1(2017)
- Journal:
- Rethinking history
- Issue:
- Volume 21:Issue 1(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 21, Issue 1 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0021-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 103
- Page End:
- 119
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-02
- Subjects:
- Fiction -- literature -- literary -- Lockridge -- Indiana -- suicide -- novels -- Raintree County
Historiography -- Periodicals
History -- Periodicals
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- http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1364-2529&subcategory=AH200000 ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrhi20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/13642529.2016.1270564 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1364-2529
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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