ENG 232: American Literature Survey

Paul Sorrentino has sifted through garbled chronologies and contradictory eyewitness accounts, scoured the archives, and followed in Crane's footsteps. The result is the most accurate account of the poet and novelist to date.

This book presents a representative selection of the reviews of Stephen Crane's books, beginning with the publication of his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, through the posthumously published last novel, The O'Ruddy. The volume offers readers an insight into how Crane's reputation was formed and how it changed during his lifetime, ending with the shifts in emphasis upon his early death.

This book presents biographical information about Stephen Crane along with critical analysis of the themes, symbols, and ideas that appear in the author's works. Harold Bloom edited this volume as part of the Bloom's Major Novelists series.

This reference book provides a picture of Crane's short but furiously creative life and encourages an appreciation of his works. The volume includes hundreds of entries for members of Crane's immediate and extended family; close friends and associates; educational institutions that he attended; places where he resided; publishers and syndicates by whom he was employed; literary movements with which he is usually associated; and the works of fiction, poetry, and journalism that he wrote.

Perry Lentz draws on more than three decades of teaching the novel The Red Badge of Courage and his own experience as a historical novelist to plumb the historical realities that shaped Crane's work. Taking a new look at a classic work that many may feel they already know, Lentz shows how this apparently impressionistic novel is actually a faithful reflection of Civil War combat based on thorough knowledge about combat in general and the battle of Chancellorsville in particular.

This book critically examines Stephen Crane's novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Harold Bloom edited this volume as part of the Bloom's Guides series.