Red Badge of Courage, The

Though he died of tuberculosis at the age of 28, Stephen Crane has been considered as a possible forerunner of Ernest Hemingway. This text offers biographical information on Stephen Crane and plot summaries and lists of characters from Red Badge of Courage and other works.

Stephen Crane is widely recognized as a master and innovator of literary naturalism. Among his more popular works are the novels Maggie: A Girl of the Street and The Red Badge of Courage and the short stories "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," "The Blue Hotel," and "The Open Boat." Bloom's How to Write about Stephen Crane provides students with instructions on how to write an effective essay about Crane and his works and includes bibliographies, an index, and an introduction by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities.