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.

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Andrew 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.

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Introduction: 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 Fragmentation