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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (292022)	8/31/2002 10:32:46 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "Was Red Badge" an anomaly or was opinion changing already?" I would vote for (a) anomaly, given the fact that Crane's novel was published in 1895, just three years before the start of the Spanish-American War, perhaps the most jingoistic of all the wars in the history of America. The following was pulled from a Web site: "In 1895, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage in 10 days. What made the novel remarkable was that Crane had never seen a war - he had not been born until six years after the Civil War had ended. In addition, he had few other books to serve as guides. His was a first attempt at this sort of realistic writing about war. His accuracy was attested to by many Civil War veterans who insisted that Crane was the soldier firing next to them in the trenches of the war. "At first popular in England, then enormously so in the United States, The Red Badge of Courage earned Crane fame and fortune. At the age of 28 he became critically ill with tuberculosis and died in a year. Though his life was short, he lived it to the fullest. That The Red Badge of Courage is one of the most praised novels of the 19th century and that it is still widely read today is testimony to its greatness and to the skill of its creator." ********************************************************** (Flap again) It's almost as if Crane was the recipient of a vision in order to produce the masterpiece in just 10 days, without benefit of first-hand battle experiences. Interestingly enough, the novel came out roughly 30 years after the end of the Civil War ... roughly the same time span as the end of the Vietnam War and today.