Updates to the Stephen Crane Bibliography and Stephen Crane Studies Tables of Contents

The Stephen Crane Studies list of current books and articles has been updated:

The Tables of Contents for Stephen Crane Studies have also been updated:

If you don’t see your publication here and would like it to appear, send the information to cranequeries@gmail.com.

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Stephen Crane Panel at ALA 2023 (Boston)

Stephen Crane Panel

ALA 2023

May 25-28, 2003
Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA

New Directions in Stephen Crane Scholarship

Organized by the Stephen Crane Society

Chair: Jennifer Travis, St. John’s University

1.    “Sonic Signatures in Stephen Crane’s War Poetry,” Haley Garrelts, Texas Tech University

2.     “Wooden Soldiers: Masculine Sensitivity in Stephen Crane’s Short Stories,” Evan J. Leake, Indiana University-Bloomington

3.     “The Sea, Experience, and Human Togetherness in To the Lighthouse and ‘The Open Boat,’” Jack Love, Texas A&M University

Business Meeting: There will be no business meeting.

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CFP: Stephen Crane Panels at ALA (Deadline: January 15, 2023)

Call for Papers: Stephen Crane Society, ALA 2023

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:

Paul Sorrentino

psorrent@vt.edu

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.

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New Books: From Don Yost: Press Release for Henry: A Sequel to Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage

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.

Summary of 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.

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Crane Queries: “The Devil’s Acre”

Hi,

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.

Many Thanks for any help.

Best Regards,

Rex
Rex Miller
www.rexpix.com

Update: Replies below

  1. Hello fellow and sister Crane scholars: Can anyone recommend some recent books or articles on Crane? I haven’t had luck locating them. Thank you.Reply
  2. john Lehner says:June 29, 2022 at 5:08 pm (Edit)vol. 8 of the collected works of Crane pub. Univ. of Virginia
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New Editor for Stephen Crane Studies: John Dudley

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/.

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Stephen Crane Panels and Papers at the American Literature Association Conference, Chicago, May 26-29, 2022

Updated 4/28/22

Thursday, May 26, 3:00-4:20 p.m.

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

  1. “Frank Norris’s Yellow Peril Commodities: Feminized Labor and Asian Commodification in Frank
    Norris’s Fiction.” Ryan Wander, The College of Idaho
  2. “Stephen Crane’s Orient: Defining the Borders and Etching Our the Orientalist Thought.” Ece
    Ergin, University of Freiburg
  3. “Frank Norris’s Sinophobia/Sinophilia.” Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University
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Burning Boy: Paul Auster on the Extraordinary Life and Work of Stephen Crane, October 28, 6-7 p.m. EST

Thursday, October 28th

6:00 – 7:00 pm EST

Registration link:

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.

REGISTER

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CFP: Stephen Crane Society Panels at ALA (Deadline: January 15, 2022)

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:

Paul Sorrentino

psorrent@vt.edu

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.

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Cancelled: Stephen Crane 150th Anniversary Symposium

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,

Wolfgang Hochbruck

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