Where can I find Crane criticism online?

Did Stephen Crane have a middle name? Who were his brothers and sisters?

Crane died of tuberculosis, a common cause of death before antibiotics and other drugs were discovered to treat the disease. He had had the disease for a long time. According to The Crane Log, he suffered a lung hemorrhage on 29 December 1899 but kept writing to pay the bills throughout the spring of 1900.  He had  more hemorrhages on March 31st, and by April 14, the Academy, a journal, noted that Crane was "lying seriously ill at the mediaeval house in Sussex, Brede Place, where he has been living for the past two years." At the end of May, 1900, Cora Crane takes Stephen to Badenweiler, Baden, for treatment, in a last-ditch effort to save his life. Crane continues to dictate portions of his last novel, The O'Ruddy, but dies on June 5, 1900. 

Did Stephen Crane have a middle name? Who were his brothers and sisters?

Crane had no middle name. Here is some information about his brothers and sisters:

Crane was the 14th and last child of Jonathan Townley Crane and Mary Helen (Peck) Crane ( Crane Log 1). According to The Crane Log , "Only 8 of the 13 children who preceded Stephen are alive at the time of his birth" (1). His siblings are as follows (all references are from The Crane Log or from Thomas Gullason's Stephen Crane's Literary Family ) :

William Howe Crane (1854-1926) practiced law in Port Jervis, N. Y. and later retired to California. Gullason: "William was at Wesleyan University for a year, then New York University, before graduating from Albany Law School" (2).

Jonathan Townley Crane, Jr. (pronounced "Toonley") (1858-1908) "died indigent in the local hospital" in Binghamton, N. Y. (xxxii)

Agnes Elizabeth Crane, a surrogate mother to Crane and a schoolteacher, d. 10 June 1884 at age 28 of "cerebrospinal meningitis in the home of her brother Edmund at Rutherford, New Jersey" (32).

Wilbur Fiske Crane (1859-1918) Gullason: "Wilbur attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia College from 1881-1886" (2). d. in a small town in Georgia.

Edmund Crane (450). More information from Stanley Wertheim (Queries 2005): " Edmund Bryan Crane (1857-1922) was the brother with whom Stephen had the closest relationship, and his residences at Lake View, New Jersey, and Hartwood, New York, were as near to what can be called homes that Crane had in the United States. After the death of Jonathan Townley Crane, Stephen lived for a time with Bryan, then a teacher in Sussex County, New Jersey. When their mother died, Edmund became Stephen's guardian. Much of The Red Badge of Courage was written in Edmund's house at Lake View, and the name of Edmund's wife, Mary L. Fleming, was probably the source for the surname of the protagonist of the novel."

Mary Helen Crane Murray-Hamilton (451). Gullason: "Mary Helen ("Nellie") graduated from Pennington Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute (where the Reverend Mr. Crane had served for nine years as its principal)" (1).

George Crane. George, Wilbur, William, Edmund, and Mary Helen were present at Stephen Crane's funeral service at the Central Metropolitan Temple on 28 June 1900 (451).

Luther P. Crane d. 26 September 1886 in a fall beneath the wheels of a moving train (35). Gullason: "Three brothers, Luther, Wilbur, and Edmund (one alumni directory lists William instead of Edmund), along wth Agnes, went on to Centenary Collegiate Institute (now Centenary College)" (1).

All of Crane's writings are in the common domain and may be reprinted or quoted without permission. There is a technical caveat that if you are using a specific edition, the text of that edition my be copyright, so that it would be prudent to write a certified letter to the publisher requesting permission and to cite that edition as your source if your work is published. 

--Stanley Wertheim

You can find a copy at this link: http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/lewiss/CraneStory.htm

The Crane Society site depends on volunteer contributions from scholars for its content. It is primarily a site for Crane scholars but also tries to help students by providing information. It is not a homework hotline and cannot provide such information on demand.

We don't have a paid staff, and we are not a library, which is your best source of information about Crane and criticism on his works. For good information on Crane, visit your local library and check out some of the many excellent books on Crane. The bibliographies should help you, as will the extensive answers given on our Queries and Student queries pages. You can also look at the answers to the next question for suggestions about finding more Crane resources online.

Many libraries will have access to FirstSearch, which includes the MLA Bibliography, and they will also have one or more of the following full-text databases. You can go to your local university library's home page and see which of these resources are available to you. However, these resources  may be available only on-campus or to registered students and faculty.  Many high schools and public libraries also have access to databases (such as the Gale databases) that have literary criticism.

Project Muse (Journals from Johns Hopkins University Press)(muse.jhu.edu)
Ebsco
UMI ProQuest Direct
JStor (www.jstor.org): JStor has back issues of such journals as American Literature.

You can find articles and books on your topic by searching the bibliographies at the Crane Society site or by using the MLA Bibliography. You will also find some short bibliographies on individual stories in the Queries and Student Queries pages, and you can search this site for other references.

Since Northernlight no longer has articles online, FindArticles is a good bet; it offers some of the same full-text articles but does not charge for them.

Amazon.com has also started offering articles from scholarly journals, at about $5.95 apiece.

If you anticipate being away from a library for a longer period of time and can afford it, you might try Questia.com. Questia.com has scholarly books and some articles available. The site offers a free 30-day trial subscription and after that costs about $20 per month.

This depends on the style your instructor prefers (MLA, Chicago, Turabian), but Diana Hacker's site and a site from the Duke University libraries provide some good examples. Hacker's site also includes examples of in-text citation.

The MLA site also has good examples at http://www.mla.org/publications/style/style_faq/style_faq4.

Please note that although your Works Cited page should use hanging indents (i.e., indent the second line five spaces more than the first line), this can't be done easily on a web page. Also, the web address URL may be on a separate line since the space here is limited, but it should not be (or does not have to be) on a separate line in your document. Adjust your formatting accordingly.

None of the examples at MLA or the other sites listed exactly addresses the materials at this site, so here are some possibilities.

1. For quoting from replies on the Queries and Student Queries pages.

This is adapted from the Web Forum Posting example at the Hacker site.

Author Lastname, Author Firstname. "Reply to Question." Online posting. Date of reply. The Stephen Crane Society. Date you accessed the page. <http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/squeries02.htm [or whatever the web address is]>.

Example:

Wertheim, Stanley. "Reply to 'Meaning of Wind-Demon.'" Online posting. 12 Feb. 2005. The Stephen Crane Society. 12 November 2005. <http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/squeries05.htm>

2. For quoting information provided on a specific page. (Note: Sources of information are given on individual pages. If the information is from The Crane Log or another source, you should look up the original source.)

This is adapted from the personal site example on the MLA site, although it can't fit the model exactly.

Author lastname, author firstname. "Page title." Date of the page [this is found at the bottom of every page; MLA form requires only the date of the most recent update]. The Stephen Crane Society. Date you accessed the page. <http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/reviews.htm>.

Campbell, Donna. "Reviews of Crane's Works and Other Secondary Sources." 30 May 2005. The Stephen Crane Society. 20 November 2005. <http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/reviews.htm>

Depending on your instructor's preferences, you might also cite this page as part of a scholarly project. Again, the example below follows the MLA example, this time for a scholarly project. Using the information above, your Works Cited entry would look like this:

"Reviews of Crane's Works and Other Secondary Sources." The Stephen Crane Society. Ed. Donna Campbell. 30 May 2005. Washington State University. 20 November 2005. <http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/reviews.htm>