Synopses & Reviews
This volume of essays explore some of the diverse ways that W.T. Stead's complicated revolution in British newspapers and print journalism (the New Journalism) influenced Irish politics, culture, and newspaper practices. Irish journalism often reflected distinctively national or local concerns. Yet, its editors, innovations, preoccupations, and technologies benefited from increasingly transnational networks that were less constrained by or concerned with national, geographical, or even linguistic borders. Individually and collectively, these essays demonstrate some of the ways in which the new journalistic technologies and strategies of this era transformed the roles of editors and journalists in Ireland. The most comprehensive examination of the New Journalism and Ireland to date, this volume also further illuminates the central role of the press in the evolution of Irish nationalism and Irish modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Synopsis
This volume explores the ways in which the complicated revolution in British newspapers, the New Journalism, influenced Irish politics, culture, and newspaper practices. The essays here further illuminate the central role of the press in the evolution of Irish nationalism and modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
About the Author
Karen Steele is Professor and Chair of English at Texas Christian University, USA.
Michael de Nie is Professor of History at the University of West Georgia, USA. They have both published widely on the Irish and British newspaper and periodical press.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Karen Steele and Michael de Nie
PART I: IRISH TRAUMA AND THE ROOTS OF NEW JOURNALISM
1. Ghosts and Wires: The Telegraph and Irish Space; Christopher Morash
2. 'Green Shoots' of the New Journalism in the Freeman's Journal, 1878-1890; Felix M. Larkin
PART II: DEMOCRATIZING JOURNALISM
3. 'The Mechanics of How We Bear Witness': W. T. Stead's Lessons for Ireland; Karen Steele
4. Stead's Lessons for Ireland Irish Political Cartoons and the New Journalism; Elizabeth Tilley
PART III: TRANSNATIONAL NEW JOURNALISM
5. W. T. Stead, Liberal Imperialism, and Ireland; Michael de Nie
6. Political Cartoons as Visual Opinion Discourse: The Rise and Fall of John Redmond in the Irish World; Úna Ní Bhroiméil
7. 'A Great Deal Cannot Be Printed': W. T. Stead, E. J. Dillon, and Leo Tolstoy; Kevin Rafter
PART IV: NEW JOURNALISM AND MODERNISM
8. 'Those Who Create Themselves Wits at the Cost of Feminine Delicacy': James Joyce, W. T. Stead, and the 'Maiden Tribute' Sex Scandal; Margot Gayle Backus
9. From Revival to Revolution: Thomas MacDonagh and the Irish Review; Kurt Bullock
10. Irish Modernism, the New Journalism, and Modern Periodical Studies; Paige Reynolds