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'The Red Badge of Courage' (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The other stories collected in this volume draw on Crane's subsequent experience...

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Main Author: Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 (Author)
Other Authors: Mellors, Anthony Matthew (Editor), Robertson, Fiona (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Series:Oxford world's classics.
Subjects:
Virginia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:'The Red Badge of Courage' (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The other stories collected in this volume draw on Crane's subsequent experience of war reporting and include 'The Open Boat, 'The Monster' and 'The Blue Hotel'. This edition is the most generously annotated available of Crane's work, focusing on his place as an experimental writer, his modernist legacy and his social as well as literary revisionism.
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 1998.
Physical Description:1 online resource (lvii, 249 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780191921834 (ebook) :
DOI:10.1093/owc/9780199552542.001.0001