Degree Name
PHD, Doctor of Philosophy
Degree Type
Dissertation - Open Access
Department
Department of English
Advisory Committee
Committee Chair - Joseph R. McElrath
Committee Member - Ernest Rehder
Committee Member - John Fenstermaker
Committee Member - R. Bruce Bickley
Date of Defense
Summer 8-2-2003
Abstract
Sylvester Henry “Harry” Scovel (1869-1905) was one of the most celebrated journalists of the Spanish-American War. Almost every scholar who has written about the correspondents of this late nineteenth-century engagement has made use of Scovel’s dispatches from the New York World, particularly his on-the-scene reports of the explosion of the Maine. For the first time, all of Scovel’s “war” writing for the Joseph Pulitzer owned New York World are here made available in edited form: 132 dispatches dating from the explosion of the Maine on February 15, 1898, to his letter of August 10, 1898, an explanation and apology for the events surrounding his confrontation with General Shafter at the flag-raising ceremony in Santiago.
Following an introduction treating the correspondent’s life and experiences during the war is a transcription of each article, which has been given a close proofreading and then edited to reflect the discernible intentions of the author within the conventions of contemporaneous usage. The arrangement is chronological, and an "Editorial Methodology" explains how and why these articles are edited as they appear.
Availability
Open Access
Recommended Citation
Andreu, Darien Elizabeth, "Sylvester H. Scovel, Journalist, and The Spanish-American War" (2003). Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations. Paper 8.
http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/etd/8