Humanities Insights: Call for Proposals
Why should this series interest you? Partly because they will be fun to write. And partly to raise the royalty rate on any academic work you publish with us. If Insights are well received by teachers and their students they are likely to sell in large enough numbers to cover our overheads. They will be addressed to (a) college students, (b) sixth formers and their teachers. Over 100 Insights titles are now either under contract or reserved. For details of these and of topics in which proposals are still invited and of the advantages of becoming an Insights author please click on the links below. Each sub-series of Humanities Insights has its own General Editor who will discuss your proposals with you, guide you through the series requirements for consistency, and see your book through to publication.
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS SERIES set out to write something that they would happily recommend to their own students, and would expect other academics to recommend to theirs. In place of summaries, model answers, and notes of a kind found in teaching editions, they offer a stimulating, suggestive, yet authoritative introduction to matters of debate and interpretation. It will be a characteristic of this series that each title will raise rather more questions than it answers, and will set readers thinking about questions before suggesting how they might be answered. Humanities Insights offer stimulating, non-formulaic introductions to topics and issues in English, History and Philosophy, and a range of interdisciplinary topics, designed to appeal to sixth formers, schoolteachers and undergraduates by sharing the writer's intellectual fascination with, expertise in, and enthusiasm for, the topic under debate. Sightlines emphasise notes and annotation, present the data, allusions, and other significations that make a good genre novel such an absorbing and provoking read (like a Rough Guide to a new or familiar city, they inform, confirm, surprise, and reorient their users, doing for them exploratory leg-, paper-, and Web-work). Insights and Sightlines are short (25,000~30,000 words) and modestly priced (at around £3.50). They will be written in a lucid, reader-friendly style, in which a graduate level of reading competence is not assumed (jargon should be avoided or glossed; allusions made self-explanatory; and technical terms defined as they appear). They will appeal to those who can and do read for themselves, and who do not want utilitarian text summaries or model answers, but who desire to be stimulated by a more challenging and dialogic approach, introducing textual strategies, hermeneutic issues and contemporary debate in a lively and expert manner. Writing for this series will be an opportunity to crystallise the ideas you have found most productive of engagement, debate and insight in the teaching environment.
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