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OverviewAggressive 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew GriffithsPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2015 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 4.091kg ISBN: 9781137454362ISBN 10: 1137454369 Pages: 233 Publication Date: 20 August 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Empire, News, Novels 1. Most Extraordinary Careers: Special Correspondents and the News Narrative 2. W.T. Stead, General Gordon, and the Novelization of the News 3. Romance or Reportage? H. Rider Haggard and the Pall Mall Gazette 4. A Scramble for Authority: H.M. Stanley, Joseph Conrad and the Congo 5. Winston Churchill, the Morning Post and the End of the Imperial Romance Conclusion: Conflict, Friction and FragmentationReviewsAuthor InformationAndrew Griffiths is Associate Lecturer at Plymouth University, UK and is an active researcher in the fields of Victorian literature and culture, print media history, imperial history and war writing. He has taught at the University of Exeter and also for the Open University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |