New Essays on the Red Badge of Courage

Book Overview

First published in 1895, 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. One studies the problem of establishing the authentic text; another examines it as a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521315123
• ISBN13: 9780521315128
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"