Literary Journalism in Colonial Australia

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.

• 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.