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Amid the clamour of public voices supporting the Boer War of 1899-1902, sensationalist journalist W. T. Stead stands out as a vocal advocate of peace. This article examines his pro-Boer, anti-war publications, their language and their effect.
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This article addresses, through the specific example of W T Stead, the question, 'what is peace, how is it understood and represented at a moment of war, and how is meaning created?' It offers a new analysis of campaigning journalist's W T Stead's contribution to the cultural development of the idea of peace, its meanings and its uses, through extensive, historically contextualised close readings of his anti-war publications.
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This page is a summary of: ‘God'll Send the Bill to You’: The Costs of War and the God Who Counts in W. T. Stead's Pro-Boer Peace Campaign, Journal of Victorian Culture, March 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1080/13555502.2015.1021367.
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