Henry Fleming dreams of the thrill of battle and performing heroic deeds in the American Civil War. But his illusions are shattered when he comes face to face with the bloodshed and horrors of war. Now he's a raw recruit, Henry experiences both fear and self-doubt. Will war make Henry a coward or a hero? A vivid fictionalised account of the experiences of an ordinary innocent young soldier on the battlefields of the American Civil War, introduced by American writer, illustrator and historian, Wendell Minor.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780141327525
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication Date: 11-12-2009
Pages: 240
Product Dimensions: 5.10(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 10 - 13 Years
Series: Puffin Classics
About the Author
Stephen Crane (1871-1900), American novelist, poet, and short-story writer, best known for his novels Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) and The Red Badge of Courage (1895) and the short stories "The Open Boat," "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," and "The Blue Hotel."
as to 'masterpiece,' there is no doubt that The Red Badge of Courage is that, if only because of the marvellous accord of the vivid impressionistic description of action on that woodland battlefield and the imagined style of the analysis of ... the inward moral struggle going on in the breast of one individual - the Young Soldier.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface vii A Note on the Text ix The Text of The Red Badge of Courage 1 Textual Appendix 105 Emendations 105 The Manuscript of The Red Badge of Courage: Uncanceled Passages and the Discarded Chapter XII 106 Backgrounds and Sources 115 Stephen Crane's Life and Times: An Introduction 117 [Crane's Life and Times] Frederick C. Crews 117 Letters on Art and The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 123 The Massing of Forces-The Forging of Masses Jay Martin 127 The Reorientation of American Culture in the 1890s John Higham 139 The Red Badge of Courage as a Novel of the Civil War 152 [The Historical Setting of The Red Badge of Courage] Charles J. LaRocca 152 "That Was at Chancellorsville": The Factual Framework of The Red Badge of Courage Harold R. Hungerford 155 [Private Fleming's Initial Combat at Chancellorsville] Perry Lentz 166 Chancellorsville, Afternoon of 2 May 1863 175 Three Sketches of Chancellorsville from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War 176 Photographs of Men of the 124th New York Volunteers 179 A Definition of the War Novel Eric Solomon 181 Tolstoy's Sebastopol and The Red Badge of Courage J. C. Levenson 187 Criticism 193 Crane and The Red Badge of Courage: A Guide to Criticism Donald Pizer 195 Early Estimates 229 The Veteran Stephen Crane 229 A Remarkable Book George Wyndham 233 A Controversy in The Dial 241 The Green Stone of Unrest Frank Norris 248 The Modern Critical Revival 251 Stephen Crane: A Revaluation R. W. Stallman 251 The Red Badge of Courage as Myth and Symbol John E. Hart 262 [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] Charles C. Walcutt 271 Crime and Forgiveness: The Red Badge in Time of War John Fraser 279 [Impressionism in The Red Badge of Courage] James Nagel 291 The Red Badge of Courage: Text, Theme, and Form Donald Pizer 306 The Spectacle of War in Crane's Revision of History Amy Kaplan 319 On Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage James M. Cox 327 Nobody seems to know where we go": Uncertainty, History and Irony in The Red Badge of Courage John E. Curran Jr 343 Unreal War in The Red Badge of Courage James B. Colvert 355 Stephen Crane: A Chronology 367 Selected Bibliography 373