The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association Conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 25-28, 2023.
All topics are welcome. Here, for example, are a few suggestions:
Crane’s depiction of war
Crane and the arts (e. g., painting, photography, music)
Crane’s depiction of the city
Crane’s poetry
Crane’s journalism
the Sullivan County tales and sketches
the Western stories
the Whilomville stories
one of Crane’s lesser-known novels (The Third Violet, Active Service, or The O’Ruddy)
Crane’s depiction of women
Crane’s relationship with other writers, e. g., Garland, Howells, Conrad, or Frederic
Crane’s influence on later writers
Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.
You may also propose a roundtable discussion on, say, teaching Crane’s short stories.
Please email abstracts or papers of no more than ten double-spaced pages by January 15, 2023, to the program chair:
For more information about the conference, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org. If you have specific questions about ALA, contact the Conference Director, Professor Olivia Carr Edenfield, at carr@georgiasouthern.edu or the Executive Director of ALA, Professor Alfred Bendixen, at ab23@princeton.edu.
HENRY: A Sequel To Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage by Don Yost
Don Yost’s new book ,”HENRY: A Sequel to Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage” is an insightful novel on wartime lessons and its impact on today’s generation.
Summaryof the release
Recent release “HENRY: A Sequel to Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage” from Covenant Books author Don Yost is a revealing account that answers the unsettled· queries in connection with the life and struggles of Henry Fleming.
Don Yost was a combat infantryman and war correspondent during the Vietnam war. Currently a senior adjunct professor of English composition, he holds BA and MA degrees in English Literature from Seton Hall University and Rosemont College and is founding president of a national veteran’s organization in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He has completed his new book, “HENRY:
A Sequel to Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage”, an awe-inspiring take on the life of Henry Fleming after the war. It presents how his faith was one of the
main driving factors of him overcoming the trauma and guilt that the war had embedded in his memories. This is a beautifully written work that holds many important lessons for today’s generation.
Yost shares: “In the last few paragraphs of Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, his protagonist, the young Henry Fleming, struggles with the aftermath of his wartime experiences. He is tormented by his guilt from having abandoned
the tattered soldier during the Battle of Chancellorsville and by the death of his
best friend, Jim Conklin. Scholars have questioned Crane’s implications here. Has
Henry truly become ‘a man’ because of the trauma he has experienced? Is war a coming-of-age? How has Henry been changed by his experiences? How was he able to adjust to civilian life? V\{hat was the impact on Henry’s family? What did he
learn from the experiences? Crane’s novel, therefore, leaves many questions unanswered ‘ Henry: A Sequel to ‘The Red Badge of Courage’ answers these questions. Moreover, it is the story of Henry Fleming’s spiritual journey of personal growth from trauma, guilt, and alienation to redemption.”
Published by, Covenant Books of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Don Yost’s new book is a deeply moving narrative that examines the strength and resilience of war veterans. It contains a comprehensive depiction of the psychological trauma caused by a life and death situation.
Readers can purchase “HENRY: A Sequel to Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.
Covenant Books is an international Christian owned and operated publishing house based in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Covenant Books specializes in all
genres of work which appeal to the Christian market. For additional information or media inquiries, contact Covenant Books at 843-507-8373.
I heard an interesting piece on Stephen Crane today on NPR. I’m interested to read The Devil’s Acre, but cant find it in any online listings. Do you know how/where I can access it?
About me: documentary filmmaker, based in Durham, NC. I’ve done some research on Sing-Sing and am just really curious to read his take.
After being on hiatus in 2021 due to the global pandemic, Stephen Crane Studies will resume publication in 2022 under the editorship of Dr. John Dudley, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Dakota. We look forward to seeing many of you at ALA in Chicago and welcome your submissions for the journal. For more information, visit https://stephencranesociety.wordpress.com/stephen-crane-studies/.
Session 5-H: New Directions in Stephen Crane Scholarship Organized by the Stephen Crane Society Chair: Steven Frye, California State University Bakersfield
1. “The ‘Reader of Sounds’: Alliteration and the Production of Types in Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,” Antonia Clark Halstead, Brown University
2. “The Ontological Danger of the Work Ethic: Stephen Crane’s Critique,” Ariannah Kubli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3. “Cowardice in The Black Riders and Other Lines,” Carleigh Smith, Clarks Summit University
Saturday, May 28, 1:00-2:20 p.m.
Session 17-I American Literary Naturalism and the Asian(ized) Other Chair: Adam H. Wood, Valdosta State University Organized by the Frank Norris Society
“Frank Norris’s Yellow Peril Commodities: Feminized Labor and Asian Commodification in Frank Norris’s Fiction.” Ryan Wander, The College of Idaho
“Stephen Crane’s Orient: Defining the Borders and Etching Our the Orientalist Thought.” Ece Ergin, University of Freiburg
“Frank Norris’s Sinophobia/Sinophilia.” Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University
Please note: This is a unique registration link for Stephen Crane Society invitees.
Event blurb
LOA Live presents
Burning Boy: Paul Auster on the Extraordinary Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Thursday, October 28th
6:00 – 7:00 pm EST
In a remarkable ten-year career cut short by death from tuberculosis at twenty-eight, Stephen Crane ushered American literature into the twentieth century. Join novelist, poet, and screenwriter Paul Auster, author of the riveting new Crane biography Burning Boy, for a conversation about the singular life story and even more singular genius behind the stories, stark, haunting poems, and indelible The Red Badge of Courage.
Call for Papers: Stephen Crane Society Panels at ALA 2022
The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association Conference at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago on May 26-29, 2022.
All topics are welcome. Here, for example, are a few suggestions:
Crane’s depiction of war
Crane and the arts (e. g., painting, photography, music)
Crane’s depiction of the city
Crane’s poetry
Crane’s journalism
the Sullivan County tales and sketches
the Western stories
the Whilomville stories
one of Crane’s lesser-known novels (The Third Violet, Active Service, or The O’Ruddy)
Crane’s depiction of women
Crane’s relationship with other writers, e. g., Garland, Howells, Conrad, or Frederic
Crane’s influence on later writers
Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.
You may also propose a roundtable discussion on, say, teaching Crane’s short stories.
Please email abstracts or papers of no more than ten double-spaced pages by January 15, 2022, to the program chair:
For more information about the conference, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org. If you have specific questions about ALA, contact the Conference Director, Professor Leslie Petty, at pettyl@rhodes.edu or the Executive Director of ALA, Professor Alfred Bendixen, at ab23@princeton.edu.
Dear colleagues, For a variety of reasons, with uncertainties about the development ofthe current pandemic situation topping the list, we will have to scrap the Stephen Crane 150th Anniversary symposium. We decided early on that we were either going to have a full-scale, three-dimensional event, or no event at all.
Since there is currently no way telling which way the development is going to tilt, and before we actually book the hotel rooms that we only reserved so far, and end up paying a lot of money we don’t have for an event that has to be called off, we decided to abandon the project.
Thank you for your interest in the symposium, and sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Best wishes,