War has been a subject for American fiction since James Fenimore Cooper's novels of the American Revolution. Yet no writer broke the convention of depicting battle in a stylized, romantic manner until Stephen Crane's novel of the Civil War, The Red Badge of Courage (1895) naturalistically portrayed fear, panic, and physical mutilation. Later the World War I novels of Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929) and Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to.....
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