Authors: Stephen Crane, Alfred Kazin
ISBN-13: 9780553210118, ISBN-10: 0553210114
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: January 1981
Edition: Reissue
Paul Sorrentino is Professor of English at Virginia Tech. He is the editor of The Correspondence of Stephen Crane and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for a forthcoming biography of Crane.
Book Synopsis
Published thirty years after the Civil War, this "impressionistic" American classic tells a war story in a thoroughly modern way - without a trace of romanticizing. Through the eyes of ordinary soldier Henry Fleming, we follow his psychological turmoil, from the excitement of patriotism to the bloody realities of battle and his flight from it. In the end, he overcomes his fear and disillusionment, and fights with courage.
Table of Contents
Preface vii
A Note on the Text ix
The Text of The Red Badge of Courage 1
Textual Appendix 105
Emendations 105
The Manuscript of The Red Badge of Courage: Uncanceled Passages and the Discarded Chapter XII 106
Backgrounds and Sources 115
Stephen Crane's Life and Times: An Introduction 117
[Crane's Life and Times] Frederick C. Crews 117
Letters on Art and The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 123
The Massing of Forces-The Forging of Masses Jay Martin 127
The Reorientation of American Culture in the 1890s John Higham 139
The Red Badge of Courage as a Novel of the Civil War 152
[The Historical Setting of The Red Badge of Courage] Charles J. LaRocca 152
"That Was at Chancellorsville": The Factual Framework of The Red Badge of Courage Harold R. Hungerford 155
[Private Fleming's Initial Combat at Chancellorsville] Perry Lentz 166
Chancellorsville, Afternoon of 2 May 1863 175
Three Sketches of Chancellorsville from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War 176
Photographs of Men of the 124th New York Volunteers 179
A Definition of the War Novel Eric Solomon 181
Tolstoy's Sebastopol and The Red Badge of Courage J. C. Levenson 187
Criticism 193
Crane and The Red Badge of Courage: A Guide to Criticism Donald Pizer 195
Early Estimates 229
The Veteran Stephen Crane 229
A Remarkable Book George Wyndham 233
A Controversy in The Dial 241
The Green Stone of Unrest Frank Norris 248
The Modern Critical Revival 251
Stephen Crane: A Revaluation R. W. Stallman 251
The Red Badge of Courage as Myth and Symbol John E. Hart 262
[Stephen Crane: Naturalist] Charles C. Walcutt 271
Crime and Forgiveness: The Red Badge in Time of War John Fraser 279
[Impressionism in The Red Badge of Courage] James Nagel 291
The Red Badge of Courage: Text, Theme, and Form Donald Pizer 306
The Spectacle of War in Crane's Revision of History Amy Kaplan 319
On Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage James M. Cox 327
Nobody seems to know where we go": Uncertainty, History and Irony in The Red Badge of Courage John E. Curran Jr 343
Unreal War in The Red Badge of Courage James B. Colvert 355
Stephen Crane: A Chronology 367
Selected Bibliography 373
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