The Red Badge of Courage



The Red Badge of Courage

With its ironic and scornful tone, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage marked a significant departure from the heavily idealized Civil War fiction that appeared in the decades preceding its publication. Stephen Crane's masterpiece and the most realistic fictional depiction of the Civil War, The Red Badge of Courage was written by someone who had not experienced combat and who was born six years after the war had ended. The book is an initiation story about Henry Fleming, a naive young recruit who enlists in the army hoping to find the ...