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by Stephen Crane
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  • In the following essay, Cumberland, an assistant professor at Seattle University, provides a general overview of the novel and notes how Crane broke with Romantic traditions of the time by refusing to idealize war.
  • In the following excerpt, Breslin explains how Henry, though he at first flees from battle, matures into a soldier able to accept the "inevitability of death."
  • In the following excerpt, Solomon claims that with The Red Badge of Courage, Crane revolutionized how modern war novels would be told.

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