Vernon Press invites proposals for monographs or edited volumes for their Series in Literary Studies.
Literary studies is one of the richest and most interdisciplinary fields of study, encompassing a wide array of valid approaches, from the historical, to the theoretical, to the experimental. Broadly speaking, works of literary scholarship aim to change or enhance the way we read texts by investigating their complexity.
Vernon Press is particularly interested in books on English Literature, although they are open to proposals which examine any type of world literature.
The scope of the present call is broad. Possible topics include (non-comprehensive list):
- Female writers in English Literature
- Origins of the English Language
- Medieval literature
- Literary objects/Material culture
- Ecopoetics
- Mass media and pop culture
- Reading scripture
- Early modern theatre; Shakespeare
- Post-colonial literature
- Writing lives
- History of rhetoric
- Modernism/post-modernism
- Literary journalism
- Jewish literature
- War poetry
- New Historicist approaches
- Literary theory
- Close/distant reading techniques; practical criticism
How to submit your proposal
Please submit one-page monograph proposals to submissions@vernonpress.com or james.mcgovern@vernonpress.com, including a summary, a short biographical note and (if applicable) a list of similar titles. Proposals that treat other topics of relevance to the series in Literary Studies are also welcome. More information is available on our website.
About the publisher
Vernon Press is an independent publisher of scholarly books in the social sciences and humanities. They work closely with authors, academic associations, distributors, and library information specialists to identify and develop high quality, high impact titles. Recent and forthcoming titles in this series include The Picturesque, The Sublime, The Beautiful: Visual Artistry in the Works of Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) and The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction.