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Illustrator's flat signature in The novels and stories of Richard Harding Davis
No full textThis edition includes the flat signature of Illustrator Charles Dana Gibson on the frontispiece in "Gallegher, and other stories"; and a second signature in "Soldiers of Fortune". This is a limited-edition, 256-copy run of "The novels and stories of Richard Harding Davis" [v. 4]. Richard Harding Davis, author, 1864-1916.--v.1. The bar sinister and other stories.--v.2. The exiles and other stories.--v.3. Gallegher and other stories.--v.4. Soldiers of fortune.--v.5. Captain Macklin: his memoirs.--v.6. Ranson's Folly.--v.7. The White mice.-- v.8. The Scarlet car.--v.9. The bar sinister.--v.10. The man who could not lose.--v.11. The red cross girl.--v.12. The lost road.
Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916
Stories of Today: Rebecca Harding Davis’ Investigative Fiction
No full textLong before her son, Richard Harding Davis, became a star reporter, Rebecca Harding Davis worked for the Wheeling Intelligencer in her home state of Virginia. Throughout a writing career that spanned ive decades and produced hundreds of stories, novels, and articles, she retained an interest in journalism. Beginning with an 1861 story, "Life in the Iron-Mills," she used fiction to report on current events. Later works, such as Put Out of the Way, an exposé of the system for institutionalizing the supposedly insane, and John Andross, a study of the effects of the Whiskey Ring on an individual, constituted a distinctive literary form: investigative fiction. Her work in this genre anticipated the major achievements of several other American writers, including Stephen Crane, Upton Sinclair, Truman Capote, and Tom Wolfe
The littlest girl, a scene from Her First Appearance
No full textActed and dramatized by Hilliard from Richard Harding Davis' story "Her first appearance.
Ranson's folly /
No full textBound in brown cloth over boards with gold, black, blue, white, and yellow stamping.Ranson's folly.--The bar sinister.--A derelict.--La lettre d'amour.--In the fog.Mode of access: Internet.Berg Coll. copy inscribed: "To Rev. Henry L. Brickett with best wishes of the author, Richard Harding Davis, Marion, July 23rd, '02"--2nd preliminatry leaf
The novels and stories of Richard Harding Davis .
No full textFronts. to [v. 3] and [v. 11] are ports.[v. 1] The bar sinister [and other stories]--[v. 2] Captain Macklin, his memoirs.--[v. 3] The exiles, and other stories.--[v. 4] Gallegher, and other stories.--[v. 5] The lost road [and other stories]--[v. 6] The man who could not lose [and other stories]--[v. 7] Ransom's folly [and other stories]--[v. 8] The Red cross girl [and other stories]--[v. 9] The scarlet car [and other stories]--[v. 10] Soldiers of fortune.--[v. 11] Van Bibber and others.--[v. 12] White mice.Mode of access: Internet
Proving Ground: Richard Harding Davis in the American West
No full textThe idea of Texas staggered Richard Harding Davis. That, in any event, is how the youthful managing editor of Harper\u27s Weekly portrayed his response to the Lone Star State after boarding a train in New York City and heading south in January 1892 for a three-month tour of Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. At twenty-eight, already a much-heralded journalist for his investigative reports on Philadelphia\u27s underworld, and his gripping accounts of the devastating Johnstown Flood of 1889, Davis had been editing Harper\u27s tor a year and was eager for a change of pace. A western jaunt, he reasoned, would present a perfect opportunity to escape the grip of a dreary winter, explore new landscapes and warmer climes, and write a series of articles for his puhlisher, which would appear in its other major magazine. Harper\u27s Monthly. They would then be bundled together into The West from a Car-Window {1892], the result of Davis\u27s brief excursion into terra incognita
Staging Unincorporated Power: Richard Harding Davis and the Critique of Imperial News
No full textThis essay contextualizes the work of war correspondent Richard Harding Davis within an evolving “imperial news apparatus” that would culminate in his reporting of the Spanish-American War. Critics have conventionally framed Davis squarely within the imperial cause, associating him with his admirer Roosevelt and naval admiral Alfred T. Mahan. Contrary to readings of Davis as an apologist for US imperialism, Trivedi contends that Davis understood how US imperial power relied on an information apparatus to communicate to an increasingly media-conscious American public through culture, that is, via familiar narratives, symbols, and objects—what Trivedi calls “imperial news.” The essay follows Davis’s development from his fictional representation of the new war correspondent in “The Reporter Who Made Himself King” to his own war correspondence before and after the Spanish-American War as collected in the memoirs <em>A Year from a Reporter’s Notebook</em> (1897), <em>Cuba in War Time</em> (1897), and <em>Notes of a War Correspondent</em> (1912). Davis’s war correspondence and fictional work effectively <em>stage</em> US imperialism as “unincorporated power”: that is, as power reliant on a developing news-making apparatus that deploys particular discursive strategies to validate its political claims. This staging critiques strategies of US imperial sovereignty—specifically its “privatization of knowledge” and its promotion of the war correspondent as nothing more than a spectator and purveyor of massacres
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Exporting the standard measure: the function of travel in selected writings of Richard Harding Davis
No full textThrough a close reading of selected publications of the American travel writer Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916) this thesis illustrates how travel writing is essentially cartographic in nature and will examine how travel writing creates maps in and through discourse. Further, this thesis contends that an approach informed by concepts within the Deleuze and Guattarian framework is ideally suited to a critical engagement with travel writing as it is concerned with the occupation of and traversal through space and a pragmatic approach to semiotics.
The theoretical perspective is taken from select works of Deleuze and Guattari. Specifically, it adapts Deleuze and Guattari's approach to a pragmatic semantics and the consideration of reciprocal processes at work within discourse in order to consider and interrogate the discursive mapping at work within Davis's travel, amongst wider reflections on Davis's travel writing.
The first chapter undertakes a critical survey of Davis and demonstrates the critical neglect of him. The second justifies the choice of Deleuze and Guattari as the theoretical base of the thesis. The third chapter considers Davis's domestic travelogue, The West from a Car Window (1892) and engages with the mythologised West that permeated the culture of which Davis was a part. The fourth chapter interrogates the discursive rendering of Belize and Venezuela as they appear in Davis's travelogue Three Gringos in South America and Venezuela (1896) wherein Davis demonstrates two very different and distinct discursive practices. The fifth chapter provides a close reading of some of Davis's substantial war correspondence, specifically Cuba in War Time (1897), With both Armies (1900), and With the Allies (1914), and considers the manner in which discourse represents the contest for, invasion and eventual occupation of space.
The thesis builds on the idea that travel writing is necessarily a translation of an ostensibly foreign culture, territory or people via a domestic regime of signification, and examines this act of translation as a discursive cartography, a mapping of territory, culture and people
The red cross girl.
No full textForms v. 11 of his: Novels and stories. New York, 1916.At head of title: The novels and stories of Richard Harding Davis.Mode of access: Internet
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