Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Empire, news, novels
  • Most extraordinary careers: special correspondents and the news narrative
  • W.T. Stead, General Gordon, and the novelization of the news
  • Romance or reportage? H. Rider Haggard and the Pall Mall gazette
  • A scramble for authority: H.M. Stanley, Joseph Conrad and the Congo
  • Winston Churchill, the Morning Post and the end of the imperial romance
  • Conclusion: Conflict, friction and fragmentation.