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In nineteenth-century America, poetry both takes part in and charts unfolding cultural developments. The nineteenth century is a time of radical transformation. Industrialization, urbanization, and immigration; revolutions in communication, transportation, and distribution make the America of the century’s beginning almost unrecognizable by its end. The effects of the R evolution penetrated and reshaped American religion, politics, and social, territorial, and cultural definitions. These changes mark the poetry that variously reflects and directly participates in urgent questions regarding the directions and significance of an extremely volatile nineteenth-century America.
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Notes
Marston LeFrance’s A Reading of Stephen Crane (Oxford: the Clarendon Press, 1971)
Daniel Hoffman similarly reads Crane’s poetry as dealing with “ultimate confrontations, the individual alone against huge and inscrutable elementals … [and without] the possibility of his finding the comradeship that redeems man from ultimate isolation,” The Poetry of Stephen Crane (New York: Columbia University Press, 1957), p. 267.
Max Westbrook, “Stephen Crane’s Poetry: Perspective and Arrogance,” Bucknell Review, Vol. 11, December 1963, 24–34;
Ruth Miller, “Regions of Snow,” in Bulletins of the New York Public Library, 72, 1968: 328–349.
Maurice Bassan, “Introduction” Stephen Crane Twentieth Century Views (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967):
Harland S. Nelson underscores Crane’s religious contexts, “Stephen Crane’s Achievement as a Poet,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 4, no. 4, Winter 1963: 568–582.
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Wolosky, S. (2010). Postscript: Charting American Trends: Stephen Crane. In: Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America. Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113008_14
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