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Obituary: Professor Lawrence S. Rainey

Obituary: Professor Lawrence S. Rainey Professor Lawrence Scott Rainey, Chair of Modernist Literature at the University of York, died on 7 December 2020 at the age of 66. One of the leading literary critics of our time and an authority on Anglo- American Modernism, Lawrence wrote and edited ground-breaking critical studies and editions, and was co-founder, and for twenty years co-editor, of Modernism/modernity, the award-winning official journal of the Modernist Studies Association. Lawrence was born in Chicago on 16 February 1954, the grandson of Estonian immigrants. He was brought up by his mother, Emma Rainey, who worked full-time as a secretary, doubling up on weekends and on two evenings a week as a shop assistant at the iconic Marshall Field’s department store in Chicago. At school, Lawrence wore a black armband in protest of the Vietnam War, and instigated others to follow suit, for which he was suspended. The practice originated in Iowa and led to the famous Supreme Court case, Tinker v. Des Moines, judged in favour of the students, who did not ‘shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate’. Lawrence took a BA in Classical Languages at Valparaiso University, Illinois, and an MA and then http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modernist Cultures Edinburgh University Press

Obituary: Professor Lawrence S. Rainey

Maude, Ulrika
Modernist Cultures , Volume 16 (3): 3 – Aug 1, 2021
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Professor Lawrence Scott Rainey, Chair of Modernist Literature at the University of York, died on 7 December 2020 at the age of 66. One of the leading literary critics of our time and an authority on Anglo- American Modernism, Lawrence wrote and edited ground-breaking critical studies and editions, and was co-founder, and for twenty years co-editor, of Modernism/modernity, the award-winning official journal of the Modernist Studies Association. Lawrence was born in Chicago on 16 February 1954, the grandson of Estonian immigrants. He was brought up by his mother, Emma Rainey, who worked full-time as a secretary, doubling up on weekends and on two evenings a week as a shop assistant at the iconic Marshall Field’s department store in Chicago. At school, Lawrence wore a black armband in protest of the Vietnam War, and instigated others to follow suit, for which he was suspended. The practice originated in Iowa and led to the famous Supreme Court case, Tinker v. Des Moines, judged in favour of the students, who did not ‘shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate’. Lawrence took a BA in Classical Languages at Valparaiso University, Illinois, and an MA and then

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