Stephen Crane
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- Synopsis
- As the fourteenth child of social reformist parents -- one a Methodist minister and the other an officer of the Women's Christian Temperance Union -- the author Stephen Crane spent his early years steeped in the language, imagery, and overall rhetoric employed by the late-nineteenth-century war on alcoholic drink and general intemperance that was being waged around him. In Stephen Crane's Blue Badge of Courage, George Monteiro illuminates Crane's literary output by showing how this major realist writer imaginatively transformed the raw material of the temperance movement's message into his own vision of man's relationship to both nature and society. Crane's famed apocalyptic style so evident in his best works was, Monteiro maintains, the author's testing of the dark vision of human sinfulness tied to drink that was engrained in him in his parents' household. Through his "beautiful war" of literary realism, Crane refashioned the foreboding imagery and the scriptural language of the temperance movement to fit his own ironic moral outlook -- the down-and-out men in "An Experiment in Misery"; the fallen soul of Maggie Johnson; Jim Conklin's strange contortive death; and the temperance-blue color of the Palace Hotel. In considering the whole of Crane's writing, Monteiro structures his study around the primary natural and social settings that uniquely characterize Crane -- the city, warfare, the frontier, and shipwreck at sea. Stephen Crane's Blue Badge of Courage deepens our understanding of the meaning and purpose of Crane's work and fosters new appreciation for his immense but short-lived creative faculty.
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780511700354
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/23/11
- Copyrighted By:
- Cambridge University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.