Stephen Crane's Literary Family

by Crane, J. T.; Gullason, Thomas A.; Crane, Mary Helen Peck Crane

• ISBN13: 9780815629016
• ISBN10: 081562901X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

Little-known writings show how a rich family literary heritage influenced Stephen Crane's formative years, brief maturity, and artistry.

Author Biography

Thomas A. Gullason is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Rhode Island

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Stephen Crane and His Family: A Modern Portrait	p. 1
Jonathan Townley Crane
Father and Son: A Dual Reading	p. 23
Youthful Contributions to The Nassau Monthly
The Fiction of Our Popular Magazines	p. 29
English Strictures on American Slavery	p. 33
A Speculation Concerning Popular Happiness	p. 37
The Aborigines of Great Britain	p. 41
The Battle of Waterloo: A Ballad (poem)	p. 46
From the Reverend Crane's Career
The Lawyer and His Family: A Temperance Story for Youth (fiction) (selections)	p. 56
A Talk about Talk, or The Art of Talking	p. 70
The Mystified Quaker: Revision of Frank Olive's "Words and Their Uses"	p. 87
Party Politics	p. 88
A Day in Camp Convalescent	p. 105
Sermon: A Funeral Service Held in Memory of President Lincoln	p. 111
Obedience	p. 120
Singing in the Sunday School	p. 121
What Shall We Teach?	p. 123
Keep the Children Right	p. 124
The Crying Baby	p. 126
Justice to Children	p. 128
The Use of the Fists	p. 130
"Thou"	p. 131
Christ and the Painters	p. 133
Silent Power	p. 135
The Jolly Frog (poem)	p. 137
Mary Helen Peck Crane
Mother and Son: A Dual Reading	p. 141
From Mrs. Crane's Career
How to Conduct a Weekly Meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union	p. 145
Report of "Press Work"	p. 150
Press Work (1887)	p. 151
Press Work (1890)	p. 154
Press Work (1891)	p. 156
A Trite Application	p. 157
To the Women of New Jersey	p. 158
Jerusha Ann Stubbs to Cousin Abigail Jane	p. 160
Jerusha Ann's Third Letter	p. 165
Hezekia Quidam to Jerusha Ann	p. 168
Thanksgiving or Christmas. Which?	p. 169
How Jonathan Saved the Ash Barrel	p. 176
Agnes Elizabeth Crane
Sister and Brother: A Dual Reading	p. 181
From Agnes Crane's Career
Land Ahead	p. 186
Love of the Beautiful	p. 186
A Helpless Person	p. 188
Our Wealth	p. 189
Valedictory	p. 191
An Untitled Quatrain (poem)	p. 194
Content (poem)	p. 195
An Emendation of Mary Gardiner Brainard's "Not Knowing" (poem)	p. 196
A Victorious Defeat (short story)	p. 197
How It Happened (short story)	p. 206
The Result of an Experiment (short story)	p. 213
Laurel Camp, and What Came of It (short story)	p. 221
A Working List on Teaching and Learning	p. 229
Appendixes
Jonathan Townley Crane's Collegiate Achievements	p. 233
Novels and Novel-Reading: Jonathan Townley Crane	p. 237
Mystery and Discovery: Jonathan Townley Crane	p. 242
Words and Their Uses: Frank Olive	p. 246
Not Knowing: Mary Gardiner Brainard	p. 248
Index	p. 251
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