The Fourth Edition offers a broadened and restructured Backgrounds and Sources
section that illuminates the social and intellectual climate of the 1890s and
includes thought-provoking material by Jay Martin, Charles J. LaRocca, and Perry
Lentz on Crane s use of the Battle of Chancellorsville. Criticism includes an
expanded introduction by Donald Pizer covering major critical approaches to the
novel and fourteen assessments that reflect the revival critical interest in The
Red Badge of Courage by, among others, R. W. Stallman, Charles C. Walcutt, John
Fraser, Amy Kaplan, John E. Curran Jr., James B. Colvert, and Donald Pizer.