Given its accessible length, relatable narrative voice, and applicable themes about identity, violence, and the amorphous definition of courage, Crane's novel remains a fixture on school reading lists, enabling Crane's literary influence to affect large segments of adolescent readers.
A meditation on pride, fear, bravery, humility, and mortality, The Red Badge of Courage is widely regarded as Crane's masterpiece. Other critics have examined the novel within the context of several major literary trends of the nineteenth century.
One school views it as an essentially realist text documenting an unromanticized account of warfare and a soldier's maturation proponents of the naturalist school, on the other hand, focus on the social, biological, and psychological forces that shape the youth's experiences. The Red Badge of Courage is commonly approached from two different critical perspectives. Remarkably, Crane's knowledge of the Civil War was culled solely from historical texts and autobiographical accounts, as he had not witnessed military action prior to writing the work. Embraced as a hallmark of American literature, the novel is a study of heroism and the complex psychology of the common foot soldier during wartime. INTRODUCTIONĬrane's The Red Badge of Courage (1895) offers a vivid portrait of American Civil War combat through its account of a young Union soldier's first days on the battlefield. The following entry presents criticism of Crane's novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895) through 2006.
(Full name Stephen Townley Crane also wrote under the pseudonym Johnston Smith) American short-story writer, novelist, poet, and journalist.
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