Richard Harding Davis

Davis, Richard Harding - 1864–1916, American author and journalist, b. Philadelphia; son of Rebecca Harding Davis. After attending Lehigh and Johns Hopkins universities, he became a reporter in Philadelphia and later was on the New York Evening Sun. His stories and articles were soon attracting attention, and with the publication of Gallegher and Other Stories (1891), a collection of tales Read More...

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1.

Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
by Charles Belmont Davis. 417 pgs.

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Chapter I: The Early Days

Chapter II: College Days

Chapter III: First Newspaper Experiences

Chapter IV: New York

Chapter V: First Travel Articles

Chapter VI: The Mediterranean and Paris

Chapter VII: First Plays

Chapter VIII: Central and South America

Chapter IX: Moscow, Budapest, London

Chapter X: Campaigning in Cuba and Greece

Chapter XI The Spanish-American War

Chapter XII: The Boer War

Chapter XIII: The Spanish and English Coronations

Chapter XIV: The Japanese-Russian War

Chapter XV: Mount Kisco

Chapter XVI: The Congo

Chapter XVII: A London Winter

Chapter XVIII: Military ManŒuvres

Chapter XIX: Vera Cruz and the Great War

Chapter XX: The Last Days

Index
2.

A Year from a Reporter's Note-Book
by Richard Harding Davis. 305 pgs.

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The Coronation

The Millennial Celebration at Budapest

Cuba in War-Time

The Inauguration

With the Greek Soldiers

The Queen's Jubilee
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The Red Cross Girl
by Richard Harding Davis. 278 pgs.

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The Red Cross Girl

The Grand Cross of the Crescent

The Invasion of England

The Sailorman

The Mind Reader

The Naked Man
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The Man Who Could Not Lose
by Richard Harding Davis. 365 pgs.

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The Man Who Could Not Lose

My Buried Treasure

The Consul

The Nature Faker

Billy and the Big Stick

The Frame-Up

The Lost House

"The Log of the 'Jolly Polly'"
5.

R.H.D.: Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis
by Charles Dana Gibson, E. L. Burlingame, Augustus Thomas. 112 pgs.

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R. H. D.

The First Glimpse of Davis

With Davis in Vera Cruz, Brussels, and Salonika
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A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre ("Richard Harding Davis" begins on p. 55)
by Thomas B. Connery. 410 pgs.

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..."This book promises to be a useful reference source and would be a welcome addition to public and high school libraries....The book's focus makes it unique..." Booklist

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Copyright Acknowledgments

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART ONE Introduction

Discovering A Literary Form

DISCOVERING A LITERARY FORM

Editor's Note

PART TWO The Writers

Mark Twain

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Richard Harding Davis

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Stephen Crane

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Jacob A. Riis

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Abraham Cahan

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Lincoln Steffens

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George Ade

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Hutchins Hapgood

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William Hard

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Theodore Dreiser

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John Reed

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Ring Lardner

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Damon Runyon

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Dorothy Day

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Ernest Hemingway

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James Agee

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Joseph Mitchell

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John Hersey

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John Steinbeck

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Lillian Ross

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Truman Capote

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Tom Wolfe

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Gay Talase

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Hunter's S. Thompson

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Michael Herr

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Norman Mailer

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Joe Eszterhas

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C.D.B. Bryan

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Jane Kramer

Richard Ben Cramer

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John McPehee

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Joan Didion

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Bob Greene

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Joe McGinniss

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Tracy Kidder

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SECONDARY SOURCES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
7.

Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History (Discussion of Richard Harding Davis begins on p. 440)
by Martha Banta. 844 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Object, Image, Type, and the Conduct of Life

Part One: Contexts

I: American Girls and the New Woman

2: Looking for the "Best" Type

3: Artists, Models, and Real Things

4: The Aesthetics of Desire

5: Masking, Camouflage, Inversions, and Play

Part Two: Demonstrations

6: Literary Portraits and Types: Crises

7: Literary Portraits and Types: Possibilities

8: Studio Studies and Still Lifes

9: Images of the Ideal

10: Angels at the Threshold

11: Making the Right Occasions

12: Scaling Up to War (1876-1898)

13: Poster Lives (1898-1918)

14: Poses on Display

15: The Purchase of Grace

Epilogue: Looking Back

Notes

Bibliography

Picture Credits

Name Index

Subject Index
8.

Somewhere in France
by Richard Harding Davis. 224 pgs.

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Somewhere in France

Playing Dead

The Card-Sharp

Billy and the Big Stick

The Boy Scout

The Frame-Up
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The King's Jackal
by Richard Harding Davis. 218 pgs.

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The King's Jackal

The Reporter Who Made Himself King
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Ranson's Folly
by Richard Harding Davis. 346 pgs.

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Ranson's Folly

Ranson's Folly

The Bar Sinister

A Derelict

In the Fog
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Authors Today and Yesterday: A Companion Volume to Living Authors (1933) ("Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916)" begins on p. 187)
by Stanley J. Kunitz, Howard Haycraft, Wilbur C. Hadden. 730 pgs.

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Key to Pronunciations

Authors Today and Yesterday

Index
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The Gay Nineties in America: A Cultural Dictionary of the 1890s ("Davis, Richard Harding (1864-1916)" begins on p. 93)
by Robert L. Gale. 462 pgs.

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Whether for browsing or research, readers will reap rewards from this entertaining and enlightening compendium of the persons, events, institutions, and ideas of the era. Gale focuses on writers and their works, but also represented in the 500 entries are painters and politicians, social workers and industrialists, composers and inventors, explorers and evangelists; topics like crime, immigration, medicine, motion pictures, sports, and universities; and landmark events like the Panic of 1893, the Spanish-American War, and the World's Columbian Exposition. Fully cross-referenced and indexed, the dictionary also includes a chronology and a bibliography.

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LIST OF ENTRIES

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CLASSIFIED APPENDIX: BIOGRAPHICAL ENTRIES IN KEY OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CATEGORIES

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