Scholarly study of Richard Harding Davis's 1890s journalism and fiction, focusing on war reporting and American imperialism in the Caribbean and beyond.
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Scholarly study of Richard Harding Davis's 1890s journalism and fiction, focusing on war reporting and American imperialism in the Caribbean and beyond.
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This is a study of the early writings of Richard Harding Davis, the premier American journalist of the 1890s, best remembered for his coverage of the Spanish-American War. The emphasis of the book is on Davis's reporting-including several volumes of travel writing, covering trips to the Near East and South and Central America. Some account is also made of his fiction, most especially Soldiers of Fortune (1897), which critics have seen as a romantic treatment of the imperialist élan. As such, the...
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will contain mild spoilers
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No romantic or sexual content present
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Mentions of war reporting and conflicts including Spanish-American War
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Central examination of American imperialism, expansionism, and democratic interventionism
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References to wars, invasions, and colonial conflicts
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