Stephen Crane and the Red Badge of courage
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SummaryBorn in 1871 to a Methodist preacher and social leader, Stephen Crane started his short, but compelling life in the Civil War torn society that was America- or more specifically, Newark, New Jersey. His parents held a belief, commonplace in their era, that valued God, acknowledged free will and saw mans important place in the universe. Despite this upbringing, Crane’s future writings would not abide by such outdated ideas. (Ant. of Amer. Lit. vol.2 775) The world Crane lived in was a curious and cynical one. Darwin had recently shaken the Victorian world with his book On the Origin of Species, and with it delivered a tremendous blow to religious faith. At the same time, industrialization was forever changing the way Americans would live. Growing up just six years after the end of the Civil War, Crane cultivated a fascination with the military and subsequently, war. Consequently, he attended a military prep school in New York for two and a half years before deciding to go to school at Lafayette College to study mining engineering. Despite the change of heart, Cranes interest in warfare seeped through to help create not only one of the greatest war novels, but greatest anti-war novels as well. Published in 1895,
Table of Contents
- The life of Stephen Crane.
- A new technique in literature - naturalism.
- Differences in Crane's writing.
- The Red Badge of Courage.
- The new United States.
- Army of the Potomac.
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