{"product_id":"undercover-victorian-investigative-journalism-in-fact-and-fiction-hardback-9781009586399","title":"Undercover; Victorian Investigative Journalism in Fact and Fiction (Hardback) 9781009586399","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUndercover\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVictorian Investigative Journalism in Fact and Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA revisionist history of how the emergence of undercover investigative journalism transformed Victorian culture and British society.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen Donovan (Author), Matthew Rubery (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009586399, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e317 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.627 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe scandalous 1866 publication of 'A Night in a Workhouse' altered the course of press history. Victorian journalist James Greenwood's disconcerting exposé of spending a night in a casual ward while disguised as a vagrant launched an enormously popular genre of newspaper writing that would come to be known as undercover reporting. Inspired by the exploits of the 'Amateur Casual', imitators infiltrated restricted areas by adopting disguises of their own as beggars, migrants, homeless people, mental patients, street performers, and single mothers. Undercover traces the seismic consequences that the radical innovation of 'going undercover' had for Victorian media, literature, and culture. This revisionist history of a distinctly British tradition of investigative journalism reconstitutes the pioneering investigations that shaped the global development of undercover reporting, analyses the format's vicarious appeal to audiences anxious about their own precarity, and traces the impact that incognito investigations had on the Victorian era's leading novelists.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Amateurs\u003cbr\u003e 1. Doing the Amateur Casual: The Legacy of James Greenwood's 'A Night in a Workhouse'\u003cbr\u003e 2. Undercover Authors: Asylum Reform and Lewis Wingfield's Gehenna\u003cbr\u003e 3. Emigration with a Vengeance: Transatlantic Steerage and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Amateur Emigrant\u003cbr\u003e 4. Massacre of the Innocents: 'Baby Farming' Panics and George Moore's Esther Waters\u003cbr\u003e 5. Splendid Paupers: Street Begging and Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Other Side of the Hedge: Rural Migrancy and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: the inside story\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52509166141720,"sku":"9781009586399","price":73.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009586399i.jpg?v=1786495383","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/undercover-victorian-investigative-journalism-in-fact-and-fiction-hardback-9781009586399","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}