Stephen Crane's The red badge of courage - Bloom, Harold (New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2007)
Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views: Lee Clark Mitchell on Crane's form and style in the novel -- Kevin J. Hayes on Henry Fleming's idealistic visions -- Alfred Kazin on contradictions in Crane's authorial vision -- Christopher Benfy on Henry Fleming's initiation to war and manhood -- Linda H. Davis on Crane's originality with literary antecedents -- Ben Satterfield on the novel as humanistic work of art -- Donald B. Gibson on history and heroic attributes -- Giorgio Mariani on the ideal and the actual in Fleming's war experience -- David Halliburton on Crane's use of color -- Daniel Marder on the destruction of Fleming's romanticism -- Works by Stephen Crane -- Annotated bibliography.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-109) and index.
Keywords: Crane, Stephen, -- 1871-1900.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war