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Biography

Name: Stephen Crane
Birth Date: November 1, 1871
Death Date: June 5, 1900
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, United States
Place of Death: Badenweiler, Germany
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, poet, journalist

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Biography of Stephen Crane
1,161 words, approx. 4 pages
Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American fiction writer and poet, was also a newspaper reporter. His novel "The Red Badge of Courage" stands high among the world's books depicting warfare. After the Civil War, William Dean Howells, Henry James, and...
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Biography of Stephen Crane
16,485 words, approx. 55 pages
A precursor of the imagists in poetry and of the novelists writing the new fiction of the 1920s, Stephen Crane was one of the most gifted and influential writers of the late nineteenth century, noted for his brilliant and innovative style, his vivid,...
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Biography of Stephen (Townley) Crane
8,084 words, approx. 27 pages
Stephen Crane lived fast and aggressively, and although he died at age twenty-eight, he managed to exceed a normal lifetime's experience in travel and exposure to extremes of human condition and endeavor. Out of his experience came a body of work equal...
 


Quotations
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Stephen Crane Quotes
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Stephen Crane ( November 1 , 1871 – June 5 , 1900 ) was an American novelist, poet and journalist. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Open Boat (1894) 1.2 The Red Badge of Courage (1895) 1.3 The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895) 1.4 War Is Kind and Other...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Crane, Stephen
134 words, approx. 1 pages
(born Nov. 1, 1871, Newark, N.J., U.S.—died June 5, 1900, Badenweiler, Baden, Ger.) U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Crane briefly attended college before moving to New York City. His Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), a sympathetic study...
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Stephen Crane Information
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News and Journals
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The Humanist
The humanism of Stephen Crane. (author)
01/01/1996: 3,407 words, approx. 11 pages
Crane, the author of 'The Red Badge of Courage' and several other works, was a humanist. He was a meliorist whose works often depicted the consequences of human apathy. Crane was a fairly prolific writer, considering that his career only lasted 12 years due...
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Monarch Notes
Works of Stephen Crane: Introduction
01/01/1963: 1,130 words, approx. 4 pages
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Critic: Grennen, Joseph E. Affiliation: Chairman, Department Of English, Fordham University Introduction The Life Of Stephen Crane: Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey, November 1, 1871, the youngest of fourteen children. His father, a Methodist pastor, died in 1880,...
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The New York Observer
Were George Trow's Eulogists Ashamed of His Psychiatric History?
1/26/2007: 372 words, approx. 1 pages
When I was young, all journalists of any ambition worshiped Trow because of his groundbreaking 1980 essay, "Within the Context of No-Context." As style, as vision, a theory, the piece had enormous impact. It was published in The New Yorker, and I'd read the New...
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AP News
James Agee's vision of book is restored
1/29/2008: 1,011 words, approx. 3 pages
"A Death in the Family" won the Pulitzer Prize a half century ago and became an American literary classic, but it was not the book James Agee wrote."It wasn't what Agee intended. At least, it isn't the manuscript that he left when he died," University...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by William M. Morgan
11,647 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following essay, Morgan explores the constitution of white masculinity in “The Monster” and how this is called into question through division of community.
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Critical Essay by Nick Lolordo
9,737 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Lolordo argues that rather than classifying “The Monster” as realism or naturalism, it can be regarded as gothic.
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Critical Essay by Price McMurray
9,455 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, McMurray provides a historical reading of “The Monster.”
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%
An Episode of War: Crane's Short but Sweet Masterpiece
1,404 words, approx. 5 pages
Though not lengthy in words, "An Episode of War," with its vivid details and laudable comparisons, succeeded in ingeniously putting forth Stephen Crane's prevailing notions about the truth of Civil War life. As an avid reader and fanatic about violence, Crane was obsessed with learning more about soldiers in war.
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Essay Grade: 86%
A Ruined Life in "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets"
757 words, approx. 3 pages
In Stephen Crane's "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets," Maggie's family's dysfunction and the family's poor living condition cause Maggie's ruined life. Crane's story is part of the absolute realism or naturalism literary movement, which sought to tell stories of real daily life.
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Essay Grade: 75%
Personal Appeal in "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"
277 words, approx. 1 pages
In Stephen Crane's short story "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," Scratchy does not exhibit personal appeal because his abuse of alcohol causes him to exhibit reckless and senseless behavior.


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