Langbeschreibung
Aggressive policy, enthusiastic news coverage and sensational novelistic style combined to create a distinctive image of Britain's Empire in late-Victorian print media. The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870-1900 traces this phenomenon through the work of editors, special correspondents and authors.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Empire, News, Novels1. Most Extraordinary Careers: Special Correspondents and the News Narrative2. W.T. Stead, General Gordon, and the Novelization of the News3. Romance or Reportage? H. Rider Haggard and the Pall Mall Gazette4. A Scramble for Authority: H.M. Stanley, Joseph Conrad and the Congo5. Winston Churchill, the Morning Post and the End of the Imperial RomanceConclusion: Conflict, Friction and Fragmentation