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"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"--
List of contents
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.
About the author
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).Matthew Rubery is Professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of numerous books, including The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News (2009). His co-edited works include Further Reading (2020) and Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism (2012).
Summary
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.
Foreword
A revisionist history of how the emergence of undercover investigative journalism transformed Victorian culture and British society.
