American Literature / Unit 12 AML 1108 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*The Red Badge of Courage*
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The idea
Crane's Civil War novel of eighteen ninety-five follows a young soldier through a battle he does not understand, told in short impressionistic bursts of colour and sensation. Crane had seen no combat when he wrote it, and veterans assumed he had.
In practice
A battle, seen in fragments.
Where people slip
Written by a man who had not been to war.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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