Stephen Crane : : A Life of Fire /

Stephen Crane : : A Life of Fire / / Paul Sorrentino.

With the exception of Poe, no American writer has proven as challenging to biographers as the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane's short, compact life-"a life of fire," he called it-continues to be surrounded by myths and half-truths, distortions and outright fabricatio...

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Sorrentino, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (516 p.) :; 20 halftones, insert
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: Final Days, January-June 1900
  • Part I: THE WRENCHES OF CHILDHOOD
  • 1. Roots and Beginnings: 1635-1871
  • 2. Childhood: 1871-1884
  • 3. The Holiness Controversy: 1874-1879
  • 4. Onward to Port Jervis: March 1878-February 1880
  • 5. Schooling at Asbury Park, Pennington, Claverack: March 1880-Spring 1890
  • 6. College at Lafayette and Syracuse: September 1890-May 1891
  • Part II: LEARNING THE CRAFT
  • 7. Fledgling Writer: 1887-December 1891
  • 8. Satirist in Asbury Park: Summer 1892
  • 9. Maggie: September 1892-March 1893
  • 10. Genesis of The Red Badge of Courage: 1893-February 1894
  • 11. Struggling Artist, Poet at Work: February-March 1894
  • 12. Frustrated Artist: April-December 1894
  • 13. On the Verge of Celebrity: January-October 1895
  • Part III: FAME, NOTORIETY, AN ALTERED POINT OF VIEW
  • 14. International Fame: Fall 1895-Spring 1896
  • 15. Price of Fame: January-September 1896
  • 16. The Dora Clark Incident: Fall 1896
  • 17. Jacksonville: November-December 1896
  • 18. The Commodore Incident: January 1897
  • 19. The Greco-Turkish War: January-May 1897
  • Part IV: NEW START, OLD HABITS
  • 20. Ravensbrook, Harold Frederic, Joseph Conrad: June-October 1897
  • 21. Creative Outburst: October 1897-April 1898
  • 22. Prelude to War: January-May 1898
  • 23. War in Cuba: June-July 1898
  • 24. New York City, Adirondacks, Puerto Rico: July-August 1898
  • 25. Havana: September-December 1898
  • Part V: SEARCH FOR RESPECTABILITY, COUNTRY SQUIRE
  • 26. Brede Place, Return to Childhood, Another Potboiler: January-June 1899
  • 27. Brede Place Visitors, Return to Ancestry: June-August 1899
  • 28. Trips to Europe, Final Celebration, Badenweiler: September 1899-June 1900
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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