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| 6/5/1900 |
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Stephen Crane: Red Badge to White Ribbon
Stephen Crane's fame comes from one, full decade: first novel at nineteen, Red Badge of Courage and his Black Riders poetry at twenty-four, dead at twenty-nine. From the start, and throughout, "He could never be told, tamed, trained or trammeled," said a classmate at one of the two universities where Crane never went to class; 'born to run,' said the other Asbury Park poet a century later. . . . |
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| 6/21/1982 |
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Crane's New Red Badge
On this day in 1982 Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage was published by Norton and Company in "the only complete edition from the original manuscript." Previous editions had incorporated cuts and changes that had been made in 1895 -- changes which distorted or muddied Crane's theme, and which were perhaps forced upon him by his first editor. |
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The Red Badge of Courage: Text and Critical Reviews
Offers a searchable version of the electronic text, a selection of early reviews, information about the battle at Chancellorsville, and analysis:
"Crane attempts to portray authentic experience through a series of vivid impressions. Fighting in a war without identifiable territorial objectives, Henry senses a loss of individual control and purpose. He acknowledges the irrelevance of rational interpretation and feels acutely the failure of political or religious or philosophical language to make personal catastrophe intelligible. This breakdown of narrative explanation is embodied in Crane's fragmented, discontinuous rendition of Henry's experiences. Red Badge re-presents visual representations of the Civil War in order to critique contemporary attitudes about heroism and nationalism. As such, it is hostile toward the cultural situation of America at the end of the 19th century--the unresolved, unintelligible catastrophe of the Civil War haunted urban unrest, impersonal mass society, political corruption, and social backsliding on efforts toward emancipation." |  | Crane on Line
Features a biography, overview of critical studies of his works, a bibliography, and links.
"Crane produced a body of work that, in its striking and concise phrasing and its unflinching confrontation of smugness and hypocrisy, helped set the course of American fiction and poetry in the twentieth century." | | Lesson Plans for "The Red Badge of Courage"
Outlines an analytical approach for the study of the text, and plans for introducing themes and concepts. An extensive bibliography and list of supplementary resources is also provided. | | Selected Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress
Browse or search an extensive collection of over 1,100 photographs from the American Civil War.
"Most of the images were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men." | | The American Civil War Homepage
An extensive link collection offers historical information, documentary records, excerpts from letters and journals, biographies about major Federal and Confederate figures, information about specific battles and events in each affected state, images, and contact details for Civil War Roundtables across the United States. | | The Stephen Crane Society
Offers multiple electronic texts of stories, poems, and novels, including "The Red Badge of Courage," and "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets." Also features a biography, chronology of life events, journal excerpts, a growing compendium of answers to frequently asked questions submitted by site visitors, and extensive link recommendations. | |
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