Red Badge Of Cour Nce 4E Pa

by Crane,Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780393930757
• ISBN10: 0393930750
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-18
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The Fourth Edition offers a broadened and restructured #xE2;#x80;#x9C;Backgrounds and Sources#xE2;#x80;#x9D; section that illuminates the social and intellectual climate of the 1890s and includes thought-provoking material by Jay Martin, Charles J. LaRocca, and Perry Lentz on Crane#xE2;#x80;#x99;s use of the Battle of Chancellorsville.#xE2;#x80;#x9C;Criticism#xE2;#x80;#x9D; includes an expanded introduction by Donald Pizer covering major critical approaches to the novel and fourteen assessments that reflect the revival critical interest in The Red Badge of Courage by, among others, R. W. Stallman, Charles C. Walcutt, John Fraser, Amy Kaplan, John E. Curran Jr., James B. Colvert, and Donald Pizer.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
A Note on the Text	p. ix
The Text of The Red Badge of Courage	p. 1
Textual Appendix	p. 105
Emendations	p. 105
The Manuscript of The Red Badge of Courage: Uncanceled Passages and the Discarded Chapter XII	p. 106
Backgrounds and Sources	p. 115
Stephen Crane's Life and Times: An Introduction	p. 117
[Crane's Life and Times]	p. 117
Letters on Art and The Red Badge of Courage	p. 123
The Massing of Forces-The Forging of Masses	p. 127
The Reorientation of American Culture in the 1890s	p. 139
The Red Badge of Courage as a Novel of the Civil War	p. 152
[The Historical Setting of The Red Badge of Courage]	p. 152
"That Was at Chancellorsville": The Factual Framework of The Red Badge of Courage	p. 155
[Private Fleming's Initial Combat at Chancellorsville]	p. 166
Chancellorsville, Afternoon of 2 May 1863	p. 175
Three Sketches of Chancellorsville from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War	p. 176
Photographs of Men of the 124th New York Volunteers	p. 179
A Definition of the War Novel	p. 181
Tolstoy's Sebastopol and The Red Badge of Courage	p. 187
Criticism	p. 193
Crane and The Red Badge of Courage: A Guide to Criticism	p. 195
Early Estimates	p. 229
The Veteran	p. 229
A Remarkable Book	p. 233
A Controversy in The Dial	p. 241
The Green Stone of Unrest	p. 248
The Modern Critical Revival	p. 251
Stephen Crane: A Revaluation	p. 251
The Red Badge of Courage as Myth and Symbol	p. 262
[Stephen Crane: Naturalist]	p. 271
Crime and Forgiveness: The Red Badge in Time of War	p. 279
[Impressionism in The Red Badge of Courage]	p. 291
The Red Badge of Courage: Text, Theme, and Form	p. 306
The Spectacle of War in Crane's Revision of History	p. 319
On Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage	p. 327
Nobody seems to know where we go": Uncertainty, History and Irony in The Red Badge of Courage	p. 343
Unreal War in The Red Badge of Courage	p. 355
Stephen Crane: A Chronology	p. 367
Selected Bibliography	p. 373
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