Response

I have read Hershel Parker's "The Talented Mr. Hitchcock" and note that it appears to add nothing to Parker's earlier commentary on the issue of Hitchcock's censorship of Crane's work. I also note that Parker does not mention in the course of his current remarks three essays which are devoted to rejecting his and Binder's claims: my own "'The Red Badge of Courage Nobody Knows': A Brief Rejoinder," Studies in the Novel, 11 (1979), 77-81; and "Self-Censorship and Textual Editing," Textual Criticism and Literary Interpretation, ed. Jerome McGann (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1985), pp. 144-61; and, especially in connection with Hitchcock, James B. Colvert's "Crane, Hitchcock, and the Binder Edition of The Red Badge of Courage," Critical Essays on Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage," ed. Donald Pizer (Boston: Hall, 1990), pp. 238-63. For an opposing view of Hitchcock's possible censoring of Crane's work, the reader is directed to these essays.