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Crane's The Red Badge Of Courage - School Essays

Crane's The Red Badge Of Courage

Crane's The Red Badge Of Courage

In certain ways, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage is concerned more with a later American generation forgetting the Civil War than with a realistic depiction of how that war was actually fought from the viewpoint of the common soldier. Such forgetting paradoxically occurs through the way Americans remembered—and continue to remember—the Civil War: the emphasis of major campaigns won or lost or, to use the title of a text regarded as one of Crane's major sources, on "battles and leaders of the Civil War." The Red Badge, of course, obfuscates both battles (is the scene Chancellorsville?) and leaders (Fleming's army "superiors" go unnamed except for ...

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Added: 4/29/2012 04:43:01 PM
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