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Title
Literary journalism in Colonial Australia / Willa McDonald.
ISBN
9783031317897 (electronic bk.)
3031317890 (electronic bk.)
9783031317880
3031317882
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 290 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-31789-7 doi
Call Number
PN5514
Dewey Decimal Classification
079.94
Summary
This book traces the beginnings of literary (narrative) journalism in Australia. It contributes to evolving international definitions of the form, while providing a glimpse into Australia's early press history and development as a nation. The book comprises two parts. The first examines the forerunners of literary journalism before and during the establishment of a free press, including the letters, diaries and journals of the early colonists, as well as sketches published in the first magazines and newspapers. The book asks if these were "reporting" when there was no thriving press until well into the 19th century -- many were written by women and convicts whose voices otherwise went unheard. The second part examines the first expressions of literary journalism in forms more recognisable today, covering topics as varied as homelessness in Melbourne, the Queensland trade in Pacific Islander labour, and Australia's involvement in overseas wars, particularly the Boer War. The resulting cultural history reveals important milestones in the development of Australia's press and literature, while demonstrating the concerns unveiled in colonial literary journalism still resonate in Australia in the 21st century. Willa McDonald teaches and researches literary journalism and creative non-fiction writing at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. A former journalist, she is co-editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Literary Journalism series.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 8, 2023).
Series
Palgrave Studies in Literary Journalism, 2731-9547
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783031317880
Chapter 1. Writing Reality: Constructing a Nation
Chapter 2. True Beginnings
Chapter 3. Journals, Letters and Unexpected Forms
Chapter 4. Captured Lives: Settler Memoir
Chapter 5. The Sketch: Colonial Characters
Chapter 6. Sketches of Place, Landscape and Travel
Chapter 7. Reporting on City Life: The Highs and Lows of 'Marvellous Melbourne'
Chapter 8. Literary Journalism and Ned Kelly's 'Last Stand'
Chapter 9. 'Blackbirding', Subjectivity and the Unseeing 'I'
Chapter 10. Life in the Trenches: The Challenges of Reporting War
Chapter 11. Boer War Journalism: Irony, Understatement and Sentiment
Chapter 12. Conclusion.
