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Crane, Stephen

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1871–1900, American novelist, poet, and short-story writer, b. Newark, N.J. Often designated the first modern American writer, Crane is ranked among the authors who introduced realism into American literature. The ninth child of a Methodist minister, he grew up in Port Jervis, N.Y., and briefly attended Lafayette College and Syracuse Univ. He moved to New York City in 1890 and for five years lived in poverty as a freelance journalist. His first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), a grimly realistic story of slum life, was unpopular but gained the young writer the friendship of Hamlin Garland and William Dean Howells . Crane's next novel, The Red Badge of Courage (serialized in newspapers in 1894, pub. 1895, restored ed. 1982), brought him wide and deserved fame. Set during the Civil War, the novel traces the development of a young recruit, Henry Fleming, through fear, illusion, panic, and cowardice, to a quiet, humble heroism. This remarkable account of the emotions of a…
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From Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature
C., more even than most literary geniuses who die young, burst into the pantheon of letters like a firework, brilliant, fascinating, finished. He had, however, a shaping history. Born into a professionally religious family—his father, the Reverend Doctor Jonathan Townley Crane, being the highest…
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US writer. His reputation rests on The Red Badge of Courage (1895), which relates the experience of a soldier in the Civil War. His well-known short stories include The Open Boat (1898). He died of tuberculosis in Baden Baden. The Red Badge of Courage. 1895 Title of novel. ‘It is bitter—bitter,’ he…
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A marine painting (1899) by the US artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910). A black man lies in a small sailing boat, which has lost its sails, mast and rudder in a storm. Sharks circle, and a water spout approaches, while in the distance, unseen by the sailor, a ship passes by, unaware of the man's…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
The novel (1895) by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), about the experiences of a naive young recruit in the Union forces during the US Civil War, was adapted as a film (1951) by director John Huston and Albert Band. Although Crane had no personal experience of war, the star of the film, Audie Murphy, was…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Largest city and port of New Jersey, USA, on Newark Bay, 15 km/9 mi west of lower Manhattan; population (2000 est) 273,500. It is a commercial, financial, and industrial centre, with an international airport. Electrical equipment, machinery, chemicals, paints, beer, and canned meats are produced. …
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From Encyclopedia of American Literature Full text Article Volume 3
(b. 1871–d. 1900) American short story writer, novelist, poet I cannot help vanishing and disappearing and dissolving. It is my foremost trait. —Crane to Ripley Hitchcock, March 1896 Born in Newark, New Jersey, Stephen Crane was the fourteenth child of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Townley Crane, a…
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