Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (1895) | Book Review and Analysis

A reflection on Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (1895), a novel of the US Civil War. I read the paperback edition published by the Modern Library in 2000, which includes Crane's short story "The Veteran," an introduction by Shelby Foote, and commentary by Ernest Hemingway, H. G. Wells, Theodore Dreiser, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, and George Wyndham.

Contents:
00:00 – Intro
01:50 – Publication context, the Civil War, and my edition
05:34 – The Borges Connection
07:22 – Plot
09:06 – The first chapter
11:56 – A crucial theme
14:10 – Style
17:05 – Crane and Hemingway on The Red Badge of Courage
19:43 – Genre: novel or novella?
21:32 – The John Huston film adaptation (1951)
23:55 – Bottom line, and a reading project recommendation