The Red Badge of Courage: (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) (平装) 0393930750

This Norton Critical Edition of Stephen Crane’sclassic 1895 Civil War novel isagain based onthe firstpublished edition, conservativelyedited. The Fourth Edition offers abroadenedand restructured“Backgrounds and Sources”section that illuminates the social andintellectual climate of the 1890s and includesthought-provokingmaterial by Jay Martin,Charles J. LaRocca, and Perry Lentz on Crane’suse of the Battle ofChancellorsville.“Criticism” includes anexpanded introduction by Donald Pizer coveringmajor criticalapproaches to the novel andfourteen assessments that reflect the revivalcritical interest in The RedBadge of Courageby,among others, R. W. Stallman, Charles C.Walcutt, John Fraser, Amy Kaplan,John E. CurranJr., James B.Colvert, and Donald Pizer. Eric Carl Link is Hugh ShottProfessor of English at North Georgia College State University. He is the author ofThe Vast and Terrible Drama: AmericanLiterary Naturalism in the Late NineteenthCentury and Neutral Ground: NewTraditionalism and the American RomanceControversy.