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New essays on "The red badge of courage"

The Red Badge of Courage found immediate success and brought its author immediate fame. In his introduction to this volume, Lee Clark Mitchell discusses how Crane broke with the conventions of both fiction and journalism to create a uniquely 'disruptive' prose style. The five essays that follow each explore different aspects of the novel.
Print Book, English, 1986
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986
x, 150 p. ; 22 cm.
9780521315128, 0521315123
639664972
Series editor's preface; Note on the text; 1. Introduction Lee Clark Mitchell; 2. Getting used to the 'original form' of The Red Badge of Courage Hershel Parker; 3. The American Stephen Crane: the context of The Red Badge of Courage Andrew Delbanco; 4. The spectacle of war in Crane's revision of history Amy Kaplan; 5. 'He was a man' Howard C. Horsford; 6. Ill logics of irony Christine Brooke-Rose; Selected bibliography.