The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870-1900

The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870-1900
Author: Andrew Griffiths
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137454385

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.

The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870-1900

The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870-1900
Author: Andrew Griffiths
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2015-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137454385

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.

Empire and Popular Culture

Empire and Popular Culture
Author: John Griffiths
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 135102468X

From 1830, the British Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. This, the fourth volume of Empire and Popular Culture, explores the representation of the Empire in popular media such as newspapers, contemporary magazines and journals and in literature such as novels, works of non-fiction, in poems and ballads.

Special Correspondence and the Newspaper Press in Victorian Print Culture, 1850–1886

Special Correspondence and the Newspaper Press in Victorian Print Culture, 1850–1886
Author: Catherine Waters
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-02-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030038610

This book analyses the significance of the special correspondent as a new journalistic role in Victorian print culture, within the context of developments in the periodical press, throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. Examining the graphic reportage produced by the first generation of these pioneering journalists, through a series of thematic case studies, it considers individual correspondents and their stories, and the ways in which they contributed to, and were shaped by, the broader media landscape. While commonly associated with the reportage of war, special correspondents were in fact tasked with routinely chronicling all manner of topical events at home and abroad. What distinguished the work of these journalists was their effort to ‘picture’ the news, to transport readers imaginatively to the events described. While criticised by some for its sensationalism, special correspondence brought the world closer, shrinking space and time, and helping to create our modern news culture.

Disaffected

Disaffected
Author: Tanya Agathocleous
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1501753908

Disaffected examines the effects of antisedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124a, a law that used the term "disaffection" to target the emotional tenor of writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing that appeared to mimic properly British styles of prose even as they wrote against empire. Agathocleous argues that Section 124a, which is still used to quell political dissent in present-day India, both irrevocably shaped conversations and critiques in the colonial public sphere and continues to influence anticolonialism and postcolonial relationships between the state and the public. Disaffected draws out the coercive and emotional subtexts of law, literature, and cultural relationships, demonstrating how the criminalization of political alienation and dissent has shaped literary form and the political imagination.

New Crusade

New Crusade
Author: Bradley Cesario
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110671816

The period between the mid-1880s and the First World War was the high point of the navalist movement - but the idea of 'navalism' took many forms, and meant different problems and different solutions to various groups within British society and the British government. New Crusade examines one form of the British navalist movement: directed navalism. As opposed to the broader cultural conception of British naval power, directed navalism consisted of a cooperative, symbiotic working relationship between three elite and self-selecting groups: serving naval officers (professionals), naval correspondents and editors working for national newspapers and periodicals (press), and members of Parliament who dealt with naval issues (politicians). Directed navalism meant agitation for a specific, achievable goal. It was the bedrock upon which the more popular and ultimately more successful cultural navalism of fleet reviews and music halls was built. Though directed navalism collapsed before the First World War, it was extraordinarily successful in its time, and it was a necessary precursor for the creation of a national discourse in which cultural navalism could thrive. Its rise and fall is the story of this book.

Letters from Khartoum. D.R. Ewen

Letters from Khartoum. D.R. Ewen
Author: Russell McDougall
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2021-07-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9004461140

Letters from Khartoum is a partial biography of Scottish educator, D.R. Ewen, and of the teaching of English Literature at the University of Khartoum, from the time of the late Anglo-Egyptian Condominium through to Independence and the October 1964 Revolution.

Media and the Portuguese Empire

Media and the Portuguese Empire
Author: José Luís Garcia
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2017-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319617923

This volume offers a new understanding of the role of the media in the Portuguese Empire, shedding light on the interactions between communications, policy, economics, society, culture, and national identities. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this book comprises studies in journalism, communication, history, literature, sociology, and anthropology, focusing on such diverse subjects as the expansion of the printing press, the development of newspapers and radio, state propaganda in the metropolitan Portugal and the colonies, censorship, and the uses of media by opposition groups. It encourages an understanding of the articulations and tensions between the different groups that participated, willingly or not, in the establishment, maintenance and overthrow of the Portuguese Empire in Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, India, and East Timor.

The Nation in British Literature and Culture

The Nation in British Literature and Culture
Author: Andrew Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2023-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 100937883X

The Nation and British Literature and Culture charts the emergence of Britain as a political, social and cultural construct, examining the manner in which its constituent elements were brought together through a process of amalgamation and conquest. The fashioning of the nation through literature and culture is examined, as well as counter narratives that have sought to call national orthodoxies into question. Specific topics explored include the emergence of a distinctively national literature in the early modern period; the impact of French Revolution on conceptions of Britishness; portrayals of empire in popular and literary fiction; popular music and national imagining; the marginalisation and oppression of particular communities within the nation. The volume concludes by asking what implications an extended set of contemporary crises have for the ongoing survival both of the United Kingdom, both as a political unit and as a literary and cultural point of identity.