Stephen Crane "Stephen Crane, one of America's foremost journalist and novelist, utilized characters and topics of realism to awaken a sleeping literary piblic of his times." Although he was born more than six years after the end of the American Civil War, Stephen Crane's novel The Red Badge of Courage depicted that war so vividly, and rendered the fears of men in battle so intensely, that many veterans who read the book were convinced that …showed first 75 words of 1151 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1151 total…work remains as fresh and effective as when it was written. Identifying with the fearful and the outcast, attacking complacency and intolerance, presenting even the most unsavory aspects of existence, disciplining style and structure to a unity of effect, and doing all of these things in works of great power and insight, Stephen Crane made permanent contributions not only to the body of American literature but also to its very shape and direction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**