The Red Badge of Courage

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The Red Badge of Courage is an 1895 American Civil War novel by Stephen Crane that follows a young Union soldier’s psychological struggle with fear, courage, and self-identity in battle.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American novel
novel
war novel
adaptedAs film
ageOfAuthorAtPublication early twenties
author Stephen Crane
conflictDepicted Union Army vs Confederate Army
countryOfOrigin United States
criticalReception highly acclaimed
filmAdaptation The Red Badge of Courage (1951 film)
filmAdaptationDirector John Huston
firstPublicationFormat serial
firstPublishedIn 1894–1895
firstPublishedInPeriodical Philadelphia Press
genre psychological fiction
realist fiction
war fiction
hasApproximateLength short novel
hasCharacter Henry Fleming
Jim Conklin
Wilson
includedIn American literary canon
influenced later war literature
inspiredBy accounts of Civil War veterans
isAmong best-known works of Stephen Crane
literaryMovement American realism
linked to: Realism

naturalism
narrativePerspective third-person limited
notableFor absence of specific battle names
psychological realism in war depiction
originalLanguage English
placeOfFirstPublication United States
protagonist Henry Fleming
protagonistAlsoKnownAs the youth
publicationYear 1895
publisherOfFirstBookEdition D. Appleton & Company
setting American Civil War
taughtIn American college literature courses
American high school literature courses
theme courage
cowardice
fear
heroism
manhood
psychological trauma of war
self-identity
timePeriodOfFictionalEvents 1860s
titleRefersTo a wound received in battle

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Henry Fleming symbolicAssociation red badge of courage
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