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“At the heart of Willa McDonald’s new text is an enthralling debate about what constitutes literary journalism…But she is careful always to place this debate … in its historical context—after all definitions can change overtime … Alongside the historical narrative goes an impressive attention to specific events and characters… McDonald is also able to blend an attention to broad literary trends with, at times, an impressive, critical analysis of specific texts.”   - Richard Lance Keeble, Professor of Journalism, University of Lincoln, UK "A compelling and elegant cultural history of Australian literary journalism ranging from the violent frontier to bustling towns and cities. Willa McDonald shows how colonial storytelling in reports, sketches, memoirs, journals and letters helped to advance the British imperial project, build a nation, and engage with the world." - Bridget Griffen-Foley, Professor of Media, Macquarie University, Australia 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. .

Journalism. --- Culture. --- Australasia. --- Australasian Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Social aspects --- Journalism and literature. --- Journalism --- History

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This book examines the prominent place a commitment to social justice and equity has occupied in the global history of literary journalism. With international case studies, it explores and theorizes the way literary journalists have addressed inequality and its consequences in their practice. In the process, this volume focuses on the critical attitude the writers of this genre bring to their stories, the immersive reporting they use to gain detailed and intimate knowledge of their subjects, and the array of innovative rhetorical strategies through which they represent those encounters. The contributors explain how these strategies encourage readers to respond to injustices of class, race, indigeneity, gender, mobility, and access to knowledge. Together, they make the case that, throughout its history, literary journalism has proven uniquely well adapted to fusing facts with feeling in a way which makes it a compelling force for social change. Robert Alexander is Associate Professor of English at Brock University, Canada. He is the co-editor of Fear and Loathing Worldwide: Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson (2018). Willa McDonald is Senior Lecturer in Media at Macquarie University, Australia, where she teaches and researches narrative journalism. Her books include Warrior for Peace: Dorothy Auchterlonie Green (2009) and the co-edited The Writer’s Reader (2007).

Creative nonfiction. --- Social justice in literature. --- Fourth genre (Creative nonfiction) --- Literary nonfiction --- Narrative nonfiction --- Nonfiction, Creative --- Nonfiction, Literary --- Nonfiction, Narrative --- Prose literature --- Journalism. --- Literature and technology. --- Mass media and literature. --- Literature and Technology. --- Literature and mass media --- Literature --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Technology --- Writing (Authorship) --- Publicity --- Fake news

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