Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

A selective list of online literary criticism for the nineteenth-century American novelist Stephen Crane, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars and articles published in peer-reviewed sources

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Introduction [all free]

"Stephen Crane." A short biography, from educational publisher A.B. Longman.

"Stephen Crane." A short introduction to Crane. Also "The American Novel: 1890s-1920s Naturalism." An overview of naturalism in the American novel, and some of the novelists who can be considered naturalistic. Web site from PBS.

"Stephen Crane." Encyclopedia-type introduction to Stephen Crane. Poetry Foundation, a project of Poetry magazine.

Canada, Mark. "Stephen Crane." Biographical facts, themes; discussion questions for The Open Boat and "The Blue Hotel." From Prof. Canada, web published.

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. With the publication of The Red Badge of Courage in 1895, Stephen Crane became an instant celebrity. This web site summarizes the early British and American reviews of The Red Badge of Courage and the controversy about Crane's patriotism that briefly flared up in the Dial magazine. Univ. of Virginia.

"Stephen Crane." A web site on Stephen Crane and the Spanish-American War. From a Library of Congress web site: "The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War," which has sections on Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Spain; and on the literary responses to the Spanish-American War of Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman.

Vanouse, Donald, ed. "Stephen Crane." Teaching Stephen Crane, his themes, historical context, form, style. From educational publisher Heath.

"Stephen Crane." ed. Donna Campbell. Prof. Campbell's links for Stephen Crane.

Literary Criticism [all free]

Dooley, Patrick K. "The humanism of Stephen Crane." Humanist Jan.-Feb. 1996

Eye, Stefanie Bates. "19th century AD." On fact and fiction in The Open Boat. Studies in Short Fiction Winter 1998.

Gargano, James W. "The Pluralistic Philosophy of Stephen Crane." Studies in Short Fiction Winter 1995.

Graham, Kevin. "Outcasts and social exclusion in Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets." Interactions Spring 2007.

Nelson, Ronald J. "The writing styles of two war correspondents: Stephen Crane and Ernie Pyle." Nelson contends that Stephen Crane was influenced by Joseph Conrad's famous "Preface," in which Conrad wrote: "My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. That--and no more and it is everything." West Virginia University Philological Papers Fall 2004.

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