The Red Badge of Courage Group

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stunja15
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I am looking for the origins and influences of Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage". Any help is Greatly appreciated.

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Posted by stunja15 on Monday March 26, 2007 at 6:03 PM and tagged with influences, stephen crane, the red badge of courage.

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  1. janeyb

    eNotes Editor

    SOme people say that Crane's story developed to some degree out of his reading of war stories by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy and the popular memoirs of Civil War veterans

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    Posted by janeyb on Tuesday March 27, 2007 at 7:28 AM

  2. fpisano
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    Surprisingly, Crane's "Red Badge of Courage" is not based on any personal wartime experience. Instead, Crane was probably influenced by the pervasive coverage of the war in print media and in the works of writers like Ambrose Bierce whose own war narratives preceded Crane's novel by just a few years.

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    Posted by fpisano on Tuesday March 27, 2007 at 12:57 PM

  3. heelflp4jc
    heelflp4jc Student
    High School - 10th Grade

    Stephen Crane wrote this book on a bet. the bet was that he couldn't write a better book than Emile Zola's book The Downfall. Stephen Cran actually never fought in the civil war but he did report on it. he asked confederate soldiers what they felt and how it was.

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    Posted by heelflp4jc on Tuesday September 15, 2009 at 9:26 AM