W. T. Stead : newspaper revolutionary / edited by Laurel Brake, Ed King, Roger Luckhurst, James Mussell.
Brake, Laurel, 1941- editor.; King, Ed, editor.; Luckhurst, Roger, editor.; Mussell, James, editor.
2012
PN5123.S7 W2 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
W. T. Stead : newspaper revolutionary / edited by Laurel Brake, Ed King, Roger Luckhurst, James Mussell.
ISBN
9780712358668
0712358668
Published
London : British Library Board, 2012.
Copyright
©2012.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 232 p. : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PN5123.S7 W2 2012
Summary
When William T. Stead died on the Titanic in 1912, he was the most famous Englishman on board. A political radical and Christian, he was also a spiritualist who took dictation of the dead. This book of essays, marking the centenary of his death, seeks to recover the story of an extraordinary figure in late Victorian and Edwardian culture.
Note
When William T. Stead died on the Titanic in 1912, he was the most famous Englishman on board. A political radical and Christian, he was also a spiritualist who took dictation of the dead. This book of essays, marking the centenary of his death, seeks to recover the story of an extraordinary figure in late Victorian and Edwardian culture.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.
Added Author
Brake, Laurel, 1941- editor.
King, Ed, editor.
Luckhurst, Roger, editor.
Mussell, James, editor.
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Foreword : Why Stead would have made the right call by being a phone hacker / Roy Greenslade
The provincial Stead / Tony Nicholson
"Characters of blood and flame" : Stead and the tabloid campaign / James Mussell
W. T. Stead, late Victorian feminism, and the Review of Reviews / Alexis Easley
Christianity, journalism, and popular print: W. T. Stead and the Salvation Army / Elizabeth Tilley
Stead alone: journalist, proprietor and publisher, 1890-1903 / Laurel Brake
Stead in America / John Nerone and Kevin G. Barnhurst
W. T. Stead, imperial federation and the South African war / Simon Potter
"Are we Christians?" : W. T. Stead, Keir Hardie, and the Boer War / Deborah Mutch
The democratisation of the spook: W. T. Stead and the invention of public occultism / Justin Sausman
Discourse network 1912 / John Durham Peters
The sinking of the Titanic: Stead's death (and slight return) / Roger Luckhurst
A librarian's afterword : The British Library Newspaper Collections: Stead in the context of north-east English newspapers, 1870-80 / Ed King.

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