Margaret Harkness, W. T. Stead, and the transatlantic social gospel network

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Abstract

This chapter examines how Harkness and her contemporary W. T. Stead navigated the position of journalists with an activist agenda in a transatlantic market for socially engaged publications. It explores the extent to which both Harkness and Stead made use of the ‘rhetoric of progressive Protestantism’ across the generic categories of their writing: realist fiction, activist journalism, and critical travel writing. In examining the ‘clash between socialist and evangelical rhetoric’ in the context of emerging ‘modern marketing methods’, the chapter exposes the problems inherent in labels of ideological inconsistency as applied on gendered terms.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMargaret Harkness
Subtitle of host publicationWriting social engagement 1880-1921
EditorsLisa C. Robertson, Flore Janssen
Place of PublicationManchester
PublisherManchester University Press
Chapter10
Pages182-198
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9781526123527
ISBN (Print)9781526123503
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2019
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameInterventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
PublisherManchester University Press

Keywords

  • Margaret Harkness
  • travel writing
  • W. T. Stead
  • Realist fiction
  • Activist journalism
  • Transatlantic
  • social gospel
  • networks

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