Stephen Crane A Life of Fire 1st Edition by Paul Sorrentino ISBN 978-0674049536 0674049535
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ISBN 10: 0674049535
ISBN 13: 978-0674049536
Author: Paul Sorrentino
With the exception of Poe, no American writer has proven as challenging to biographers as the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane’s short, compact life―“a life of fire,” he called it―continues to be surrounded by myths and half-truths, distortions and outright fabrications. Mindful of the pitfalls that have marred previous biographies, Paul Sorrentino has sifted through garbled chronologies and contradictory eyewitness accounts, scoured the archives, and followed in Crane’s footsteps. The result is the most complete and accurate account of the poet and novelist written to date.
Whether Crane was dressing as a hobo to document the life of the homeless in the Bowery, defending a prostitute against corrupt New York City law enforcement, or covering the historic charge up the San Juan hills as a correspondent during the Spanish-American War, his adventures were front-page news. From Sorrentino’s layered narrative of the various phases of Crane’s life a portrait slowly emerges. By turns taciturn and garrulous, confident and insecure, romantic and cynical, Crane was a man of irresolvable contradictions. He rebelled against tradition yet was proud of his family heritage; he lived a Bohemian existence yet was drawn to social status; he romanticized women yet obsessively sought out prostitutes; he spurned a God he saw as remote yet wished for His presence.
Incorporating decades of research by the foremost authority on Crane’s work, Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire sets a new benchmark for biographers.
Table of contents:
Part I. The Wrenches of Childhood
Roots and Beginnings
Childhood
The Holiness Controversy
Onward to Port Jervis
Schooling at Asbury Park, Pennington, Claverack
College at Lafayette and Syracuse
Part II. Learning the Craft
Fledgling Writer
Satirist in Asbury Park
Maggie
Genesis of The Red Badge of Courage
Struggling Artist, Poet at Work
Frustrated Artist
On the Verge of Celebrity
Part III. Fame, Notoriety, an Altered Point of View
International Fame
Price of Fame
The Dora Clark Incident
Jacksonville
The Commodore Incident
The Greco-Turkish War
Part IV. New Start, Old Habits
Ravensbrook, Harold Frederic, Joseph Conrad
Creative Outburst
Prelude to War
War in Cuba
New York City, Adirondacks, Puerto Rico
Havana
Part V. Search for Respectability, Country Squire
Brede Place, Return to Childhood, Another Potboiler
Brede Place Visitors, Return to Ancestry
Trips to Europe, Final Celebration, Badenweiler
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