Table of Contents

Series editor's preface; Note on the text; 1. Introduction Lee Clark Mitchell; 2. Getting used to the 'original form' of The Red Badge of Courage Hershel Parker; 3. The American Stephen Crane: the context of The Red Badge of Courage Andrew Delbanco; 4. The spectacle of war in Crane's revision of history Amy Kaplan; 5. 'He was a man' Howard C. Horsford; 6. Ill logics of irony Christine Brooke-Rose; Selected bibliography.

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