Wednesday, January 26, 2005

CFP: Literature and the History of the Book (Special Issue of Pacific Coast Philology)

CFP: Literature and the History of the Book (Special Issue of Pacific Coast Philology)
Deadline: March 1, 2005

PAMLA's journal, Pacific Coast Philology, will publish a special issue on literature and the history of the book. Papers are invited on literary relationships to aspects of print and manuscript culture. Topics include,
but are not limited to, reading practices, relations between writers and publishers, the material book, publishing practices, authorship, censorship, textual transmission, relationships between oral culture and the cultures of writing and print, literature in the electronic age.

Please send inquiries and submissions to

Professor Beverly Voloshin
Department of English
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
volsand@pacbell.net

The deadline for submission is 1 March 2005. The special issue will appear at the beginning of 2006.

Guidelines for submission. Pacific Coast Philology follows a policy of blind submission: authors are asked to submit their essays in triplicate with the author's name on the cover sheet only. Essays should be between 4,500 and 8,000 words in length (there is flexibility at the upper end), and in format, they should follow the most recent MLA Style Manual.