美国文学9 Stephen Crane.pptVIP

Stephen Crane(1871-1900) Introduction Although he was born more than six years after the end of the American Civil War, Stephen Cranes 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 he was one of them. In a career of less than ten years, Crane produced a body of work that, in its striking and concise phrasing and its unflinching [not showing fear or shrinking] confrontation of smugness and hypocrisy, helped set the course of American fiction and poetry in the twen