BERNARD SHAW, W. T. STEAD AND THE NEW JOURNALISM 2017 HARDCOVER

Bernard Shaw, W. T. Stead, and the New JournalismWhitechapel, Parnell, Titanic, and the Great War\nAuthor(s): Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783319490069, 978-3319490069\nSynopsis\nThis book explores Bernard Shaws journalism from the mid-1880s through the Great Wara period in which Shaw contributed some of the most powerful and socially relevant journalism the western world has experienced. In approaching Shaws journalism, the promoter and abuser of the New Journalism, W. T. Stead, is contrasted to Shaw, as Shaw countered the sensational news copy Stead and his disciples generated. To understand Shaws brand of New Journalism, his responses to the popular press portrayals of high profile historical crises are examined, while other examples prompting Shaws journalism over the period are cited for depth: the 1888 Whitechapel murders, the [tel] OShea divorce scandal that f.