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The Author of 'Red Badge' Loved the Game More Than His Studies.

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Title:	The Author of 'Red Badge' Loved the Game More Than His Studies.
Authors:	BURTON, RICK
Source:	New York Times. 3/14/2010, Vol. 159 Issue 54979, p2. 0p.
Subjects:	English literature, Historians, Football, Red Badge of Courage, The (Book : Crane)
Geographic Terms:	New Jersey
Abstract:	English literature scholars and historians have long known that football played a major role in Stephen Crane's development of his Civil War novel, ''The Red Badge of Courage.'' Crane told early reviewers he had been coaching and playing quarterback on a team in northern New Jersey while finishing his manuscript. ''I have never been in a battle, of course,'' Crane said after the book was published in 1895, 30 years after the Civil War ended. ''I believe I got my sense of the rage of conflict on the football field.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Database:	Newspaper Source Plus

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Abstract:	English literature scholars and historians have long known that football played a major role in Stephen Crane's development of his Civil War novel, ''The Red Badge of Courage.'' Crane told early reviewers he had been coaching and playing quarterback on a team in northern New Jersey while finishing his manuscript. ''I have never been in a battle, of course,'' Crane said after the book was published in 1895, 30 years after the Civil War ended. ''I believe I got my sense of the rage of conflict on the football field.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
ISSN:	03624331