Matthew Rubery, Stephen Donovan

Undercover

Victorian Investigative Journalism in Fact and Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When, where, and how did undercover investigative journalism originate and how did it change British society? For scholars of Victorian literature, nineteenth-century British history, and the history of journalism, this book traces a distinctly British tradition and reconstitutes the pioneering investigations that shaped its global development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009586399
• ISBN-10: 1009586394
• Artikelnr.: 72597206

Autorenporträt

Stephen Donovan is Reader in English Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published widely on empire writing, periodicals history, and Joseph Conrad. His previous works include Speculative Fiction and Imperialism in Africa (2013) and Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Amateurs
1. Doing the Amateur Casual: The Legacy of James Greenwood's 'A Night in a Workhouse'
2. Undercover Authors: Asylum Reform and Lewis Wingfield's Gehenna
3. Emigration with a Vengeance: Transatlantic Steerage and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Amateur Emigrant
4. Massacre of the Innocents: 'Baby Farming' Panics and George Moore's Esther Waters
5. Splendid Paupers: Street Begging and Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
6. The Other Side of the Hedge: Rural Migrancy and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Epilogue: the inside story
Bibliography
Index.