This book is an in-depth study of the influence of evangelical Nonconformity on the evolving journalism of W. T. Stead, one of the leading British newspaper editors of the late-nineteenth century. While Stead's Christian beliefs have been examined alongside and complementary to his journalism, no long study has yet interrogated the way in which Protestant Dissent helped to shape the development of his press practice. This study explores the stimulating interconnections in Stead's 'New Journalism' between late-nineteenth century evangelicalism, radical politics, and social reform, and the modes and formats of his writing.

Revises conventional accounts of the emergence in the nineteenth century of the term 'New Journalism' Uses close readings of Stead's major journalism campaigns to explore his deployment of an evangelical aesthetic Centres Stead's journalism in both his Christian beliefs and in his more esoteric spiritual convictions

Autorentext

Philip March is an independent scholar.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: A Titanic Loss.- 2. Framing the New Journalism.- 3. Uncrowned Kings and Prophetic Typocrats.- 4. The Northern Echo (18711880).- 5.The Pall Mall Gazette (18801889).- 6. The Review of Reviews (18901912).- 7. The Christmas Annuals, the Daily Paper , and Julia's Bureau.