In the following review, Johnson finds Raintree County verbose, overrated, and “sophomoric.”
Accolades of hysterical praise have greeted Raintree County since its publication. There h...
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In the following essay, Trueheart discusses Raintree County alongside Lockridge 's son Larry's biography of his father, Shade of the Raintree.
Fewer and fewer of us can imagine what i...
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In the following essay, Weales recounts the publishing and critical history of Raintree County.
Ross Lockridge, Jr. wanted to write a great book, perhaps The Great American Novel, that ignis fatuus...
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In the following essay, Anderson discusses Raintree County as a great chronicle of emerging patterns in twentieth-century Midwestern America.
When Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr. was publish...
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In the following essay, Goist examines the tension between individual and community in Raintree County.
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (1985), a widely discussed...
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In the following essay, Noverr discusses internal tension and the division of self in the protagonist of Raintree County.
In her 1988 work titled Equivocal Endings in Classic American Novels Joyce ...
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In the following essay, Rehberger examines nationalism and the possibility of true national union in Raintree County.
What is any nation, after all—and what is a human being—but a str...
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In the following essay, Nemanic discusses the shocking initial success and ultimate failure of Raintree County.
William Carlos Williams may be the only important writer of our time who persisted in...
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In the following essay, Dessner revisits Raintree County hoping to find the novel worthy of its initial fanfare, but finds instead very little to praise.
Raintree County, a novel of over a thousand...
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In the following essay, Jones examines the significance of Lockridge's re-creation of a historical period in Raintree County.
Much care is taken to recreate the artifacts, tenor, and style o...
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In the following essay, Greiner argues that Lockridge's instant success and subsequent suicide are reflected in the experiences of his main character in Raintree County.
Although published t...
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In the following essay, Manheim discusses the initial impact of Raintree County in popular and literary reading circles and attempts to account for the novel's disappearance into oblivion in su...
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In the following essay, Erisman analyzes Raintree County's concern with the influence of geographical location on Americans.
Ross Lockridge, Jr.'s novel, Raintree County (1948) has no...
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In the following essay, Aaron provides an overview of the plot and characters in Raintree County as well as a critical assessment.
Ross Lockridge, Jr.'s, novel, a mix of history and myth, en...
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a dispute involving Elizabeth Taylor over ownership of a Vincent van Gogh painting. The painting is claimed by descendants of a Jewish woman who fled...
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Critical Review by Elizabeth Johnson
Court declines case involving painting
