Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism

by James Nagel

Stephen Crane's distinctive style since his earliest publication has been a preoccupation of critics, but they have disagreed in their interpretations, variously describing him as a Naturalist, Realist, Imagist, Symbolist, and Impressionist. In this book James Nagel convincingly argues that, although Crane was all of these, it is the norms and methods of Impressionism that constitute "the continuing and informing impulse throughout his work." Such...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271002670
• ISBN13: 9780271002675
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages