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Courier, Volume Xxv, Number 2, Fall 1990, Syracuse University Library Associates

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Huntington Mansion in New York: Economics of Architecture and Decoration in the 1890s / Isabelle Hyman, p. 3 -- Memories of Maruerite Yourcenar / Mary H. Marshall, p. 31 -- Margurite Yourcenar, Alchemist / Rhoda Lerman, p. 51 -- Legacy for Stephen Crane: the Princeton Writings of the Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane / Thomas A. Gullason, p. 55 -- Punctator's World: a Discursion (Part Five) / Gwen G. Robinson p. 81 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 123.

Stephen Crane's Father And The Holiness Movement, Christopher Benfey

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Stephen Crane was the son and grandson of prominent Methodist ministers, and it is often assumed that his colorful life of excess and adventure was an understandable rejection of that legacy. But his father's prominence during Crane's childhood was tinged with something close to scandal, and what the son rejected is not entirely clear. Indeed, Crane the novelist seems to have inherited certain traits of character from Crane the minister-tenacity of purpose, intellectual integrity, iconoclastic fearlessness-and adapted them to his own ends.

This article attempts to answer the question: Why did Stephen Crane's father, Jonathan Townley Crane (1819-1880), give up …

Courier, Volume Xxv, Number 1, Spring 1990, Syracuse University Library Associates

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Intentional Omissions from the Published Civil War Diaries of Admiral John A. Dalgren / Robert J. Schneller, Jr., p. 3 -- Stephen Crane's Father and the Holiness Movement / Christopher Benfey, p. 27 -- "I Want to Do This Job": More Margaret Bourke-White Letters to Erskine Caldwell / William L. Howard, p. 37 -- The New School of Wood Engraving / Edward A. Gokey, p. 53 -- The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Four) / Gwen G. Robinson, p. 85 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 127.