Undercover: Victorian Investigative Journalism in Fact and Fiction
Author:   Stephen Donovan (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden) ,  Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary University of London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009586399


Pages:   317
Publication Date:   20 March 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Undercover: Victorian Investigative Journalism in Fact and Fiction


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Author:   Stephen Donovan (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden) ,  Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary University of London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.627kg
ISBN:  

9781009586399


ISBN 10:   1009586394
Pages:   317
Publication Date:   20 March 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table 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.

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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).

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