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Disreputable Profession: Journalists and journalism in Colonial Australia edited by Denis Cryle

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November 1997, no. 196

Disreputable Profession: Journalists and journalism in Colonial Australia edited by Denis Cryle

Central Queensland UP, $19.95pb, 178pp

Disreputable Profession: Journalists and journalism in Colonial Australia edited by Denis Cryle

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November 1997, no. 196

In his introduction, Queensland academic Denis Cryle writes, ‘Journalism history is bound up, not only with literary history in its contemporary sense, but with cultural history’. So true, yet so little appreciated or acknowledged in this country until very recently; unlike , say, the United States where the interplay of journalism and literature is basic to an understanding of writers ranging from Walt Whitman and Mark Twain last century to Hemingway and John Dos Passos in our own . As it was, it seems to have taken the very different works of the two Helens, Garner and Demidenko/Darville, to bring such issues into public consideration in this country.

Disreputable Profession: Journalists and journalism in Colonial Australia

Disreputable Profession: Journalists and journalism in Colonial Australia

edited by Denis Cryle

Central Queensland UP, $19.95pb, 178pp

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