Following on from the first volume published in 2012 this new volume significantly expands the
scope of the study of literary journalism both geographically and thematically. Chapters
explore literary journalism not only in the United Kingdom the United States and India ¿ but
also in countries not covered in the first volume such as Australia France Brazil and
Portugal while its central themes help lead the study of literary journalism into previously
unchartered territory. More focus is placed on the origins of literary journalism with
chapters exploring the previously ignored journalism of writers such as Myles na gCopaleen
Marguerite Duras Mohatma Gandhi Leigh Hunt D. H. Lawrence Mary McCarthy and Evelyn Waugh.
Critical overviews of African American literary journalism in the 1950s and of literary
journalism in Brazil from 1870 to the present day are also provided and a section asks whether
there is a specific women¿s voice in literary journalism.
