The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the first edition of the
novel, published by D. Appleton & Company in 1895, conservatively emended. As in
previous editions, Crane?s uncancelled but unpublished manuscript pages,
including his discarded Chapter XII, are presented in an appendix. To assist the
reader, the editor has annotated obscure terms and allusions. Backgrounds and
Sources contains biographical, historical, and contextual material on both The
Red Badge of Courage and the war fiction genre.
Frederick Crews, Donald Pizer, Harold R. Hungerford, Eric Solomon, and J. C.
Levenson provide the framework for understanding the novel as both literature
and history.
A selection of