Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media (PSHM)
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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.
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Philip March is an independent scholar.
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Book Title: W. T. Stead as New Journalist and Nonconformist, 1870-1912
Authors: Philip March
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99398-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-99397-8Published: 04 October 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-99400-5Due: 18 October 2026
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-99398-5Published: 03 October 2025
Series ISSN: 2634-6575
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 331
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Religion, Media and Communication, Political History, Cultural History