The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, and Other Selected Writings » (1st Edition)

Paul Lauter is the Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College. He has served as president of the American Studies Association and is a major figure in the revision of the American literary canon.

This comprehensive volume of Crane's work includes the first published editions of The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, both of which were considerably toned down in subsequent editions for a genteel 1890s reading public. This volume also presents his short fiction, as well as a wealth of supplementary material, including historical and cultural contexts, essays on urban life and reform in the late 19th century (to accompany Maggie), Civil War backgrounds (to accompany The Red Badge of Courage), and Spanish-American War backgrounds (to accompany Crane's short writings on the subject).

I. The Intellectual and Material World of Stephen Crane The Historical and Cultural Contexts of Stephen Crane Herbert Spencer, from First Principles Andrew Carnegie, "The Gospel of Wealth" Terence V. Powderly, from Thirty Years of Labor: 1859-1889 Samuel Gompers, from Seventy Years of Life and Labor: An Autobiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, from Nature and Man in America Henry Cabot Lodge, "The Restriction of Immigration" W.E.B. Du Bois, "Strivings of the Negro People" Ida B. Wells-Barnett, from A Red R