Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, the book traces the role of Stephen Crane as a crucial transitional figure whose work in the 1890s and subsequent influence helped to shape the development of both fiction and nonfiction writing in America... A masterful study of one of the founders of what is now widely known as literary journalism, as well as an original construction of an important historical turning point in American letters.

Michael Robertson is assistant professor of English at the College of New Jersey.