Introduction: Empire, News, Novels
1. Most Extraordinary Careers: Special Correspondents and the News Narrative
2. W.T. Stead, General Gordon, and the Novelization of the News
3. Romance or Reportage? H. Rider Haggard and the Pall Mall Gazette
4. A Scramble for Authority: H.M. Stanley, Joseph Conrad and the Congo
5. Winston Churchill, the Morning Post and the End of the Imperial Romance
Conclusion: Conflict, Friction and Fragmentation