The 1894 Syndicated Newspaper Appearances of The Red Badge of Courage

Abstract

The general outline of how Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage came to be serialized in numerous American newspapers in December 1894 is relatively well known among scholars. In January or February 1894, Crane submitted the manuscript of his novel to S. S. McClure for use either in his Associated Literary Press newspaper syndicate or in McClure's Magazine in hopes that its acceptance would help him achieve his first substantial success as a fiction author. Yet for a number of reasons neither McClure