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Understanding The Red Badge of Courage: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
By Claudia Durst Johnson
228 pages
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- Publisher:
- Greenwood Press
- Place of publication:
- Westport, CT
- Publication year:
- 1998
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Synopsis
Every generation of readers has interpreted the meaning of The Red Badge of Courage anew. Its appeal is both historical and universal--historical in its Civil War setting and universal in its relating of the experiences of a young man who is thrust into a situation he does not understand and cannot cope with. This collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary will promote interdisciplinary study of the novel and enrich the reader's understanding of its themes and historical ...
Every generation of readers has interpreted the meaning of The Red Badge of Courage anew. Its appeal is both historical and universal--historical in its Civil War setting and universal in its relating of the experiences of a young man who is thrust into a situation he does not understand and cannot cope with. This collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary will promote interdisciplinary study of the novel and enrich the reader's understanding of its themes and historical context. A wide variety of more than 40 primary documents and firsthand accounts brings to life the Civil War experiences of leaders and soldiers of the Union and Confederacy, especially in the Battle of Chancellorsville, which is the setting for the novel. Carefully selected memoirs, poems, short stories, newspaper articles, and interviews illuminate the historical setting, the themes of cowardice and desertion, battlefield experiences, the soldier's life in camp, and the issue of pacifism as it relates to The Red Badge of Courage as an antiwar novel.
Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Introduction ix
- 1 - Literary Analysis of the Red Badge of Courage: Initiation or Irony? 1
- Notes 19
- Bibliography 22
- 2 - The Civil War Setting of the Novel 23
- 3 - From Harold R. Hungerford, "'That Was at Chancellorsville': The Factual Framework of the Red Badge of Courage" 35
- Endnotes Page 44
- 4 - From Abner Doubelday, Chancellorville and Gettysburg (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882, p. 71) 46
- 5 - From Colonel P. H. Dalbiac, The American War of Secession 1863: Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (London: Ruskin House, 1911, pp. 53-66) 47
- 6 - From Major-General Darius N. Couch, "The Chancellorsville Campaign," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (New York: Century Co., 1884, pp. 154-171) 49
- 7 - From Major-General Alfred Pleasonton, "The Successes and Failures of Chancellorsville," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (New York: Century Co., 1884, pp. 172-182) 50
- 8 - Hooker's Defense Against Charges of Incompetence 51
- 9 - Sacrifice at Hazel Grove: Johnson, Huey, and Wells 54
- 10 - From General Pennock Huey, "The Charge of the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalary," in Battles and Leaders of the (New York: Century Co., 1884, p. 186) 55
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Introduction ix
- 1 - Literary Analysis of the Red Badge of Courage: Initiation or Irony? 1
- Notes 19
- Bibliography 22
- 2 - The Civil War Setting of the Novel 23
- 3 - From Harold R. Hungerford, "'That Was at Chancellorsville': The Factual Framework of the Red Badge of Courage" 35
- Endnotes Page 44
- 4 - From Abner Doubelday, Chancellorville and Gettysburg (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882, p. 71) 46
- 5 - From Colonel P. H. Dalbiac, The American War of Secession 1863: Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (London: Ruskin House, 1911, pp. 53-66) 47
- 6 - From Major-General Darius N. Couch, "The Chancellorsville Campaign," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (New York: Century Co., 1884, pp. 154-171) 49
- 7 - From Major-General Alfred Pleasonton, "The Successes and Failures of Chancellorsville," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (New York: Century Co., 1884, pp. 172-182) 50
- 8 - Hooker's Defense Against Charges of Incompetence 51
- 9 - Sacrifice at Hazel Grove: Johnson, Huey, and Wells 54
- 10 - From General Pennock Huey, "The Charge of the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalary," in Battles and Leaders of the (New York: Century Co., 1884, p. 186) 55
- 11 - From Captain Andrew B. Wells, "The Charge of the Eighth Pennsylvania Calvalry," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (New York: Century Co., 1884, pp. 187-188) 56
- 12 - George Parsons Lathrop, "Keenan's Charge" (1863) 58
- TOPICS FOR ORAL AND WRITTEN EXPLORATION 61
- Suggested Readings 62
- Desertion in the Red Badge of Courage 63
- From Colonel P. H. Dalviac, "The American War of Secession 1863," in the Battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg 75
- From James Beace, Chancellorsville 79
- From John Collins, "When Stonewall Jackson Turned Our Right," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (New York: Century Co., 1884, pp. 183-185) 83
- A Defense from the Offical Report of General Carl Schurz 84
- From George H. Gordon, "The Guilty Deserter," in the Romance of the Civil War (New York: Macmillan, 1903, pp. 156-159) 87
- Stephen Crane, "The Veteran" (McClure's Magazine VII [August 1896,], 222-224) 90
- From Mark Twain, "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" (Century Magazine [1885], 1-15) 94
- TOPICS FOR ORAL AND WRITTEN DISCUSSION 99
- Suggested Readings 99
- The Battlefield and Its Effects 101
- Slaughter on the Battlefield 108
- Letters from Two Brothers from the Front 112
- Carnage in the Battle of Atlanta 115
- William Bircher 117
- The Battlefield Hospital: Walt Whitman 118
- The Horrors of War in the Twentieth Century: John Boudreau 120
- From John Boudreau, "Fifty Years of Terror and Loss" 128
- From John Boudreau, "Night Patrol Never Ends" 135
- In Battle in the Pacific: Sam Turner 136
- TOPICS FOR ORAL AND WRITTEN PRESENTATION 146
- Suggested Readings 146
- 5 - The Soldier's Life in Camp 147
- From Charles Carleton Coffin, My Days and Nights on the Battlefield (Boston: Dana Estes and Company, 1865, pp. 24-30) 152
- William Bircher: A Drummer-Boy's Diary 154
- From James Kendall Hosmer, "Camp Life (1862)," in the Romance of the Civil War, Ed. Albert Bushnell Hart 157
- James Kendall Hosmer: " On The Way To War" 158
- From William Henry Bisbee, Through Four American Wars 160
- George F. Noyes: "Off For The Front" 161
- John D. Billings: "Hardtack and Coffee" 162
- Carlton McCarthy: "On The March" 164
- James Kendall Hosmer: "A Turkey For A Bedfellow" 166
- Jenkin Lloyd James: An Artilleryman's Diary 167
- From Albert O. Marshall, Army Life: From a Soldier's Journal (Joliet, Ill.: Printed for the Author, 1883, pp. 16, 17, 25, 27-28) 169
- TOPICS FOR WRITTEN AND ORAL EXPLORATION 172
- Suggested Readings 172
- 6 - The Red Badge of Courage as an Antiwar Novel 175
- Notes 181
- STEPHEN CRANE, "XIV," IN THE BLACK RIDERS AND OTHER LINES 182
- Stephen Crane, "XIV," In The Black Riders And Other Lines 182
- Stephen Crane, "69" ("Do Not Weep, Maiden For War is Kind") 183
- Samuel Clemens, The War Prayer (New York: Harper and Row, 1923) 185
- Pledge of the War Resisters International 189
- "Againt War: An Interview with Dick Brown" (April 9, 1997) 192
- TOPICS FOR WRITTEN AND ORAL EXPLORATION 202
- Suggested Readings 202
- Index 205
- About the Author 211