The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane

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The Red Badge of Courage: Genre 1 key example

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The Red Badge of Courage is an excellent example of Naturalism, a 19th-century literary movement that rejected the conventions of the Romantic period as fanciful and sentimental, focusing instead on depicting reality exactly as it appeared. Influenced by the ideas of Social Darwinism that gained popularity in the late 19th century, many naturalist writers embraced a grim and deterministic view of life, depicting characters who are shaped by their environments and have little power to alter their circumstances. Along with writers such as Theodore Dreiser and Hamlin Garland, Stephen Crane was a leader of this movement in the United States.