Literature in Transit

General Editor: Benjamin Colbert

(University of Wolverhampton, UK)

This series draws together burgeoning scholarly interest in travel writing and in related literatures that thematize travel, engage with travel cultures, or situate themselves in terms of cross-cultural reading communities. We are especially interested in publishing high-quality titles from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century studies, but will also consider work from other periods. We seek typescripts and proposals in English for books in any of the following areas:

Editions of out of print travel writing or unpublished travel accounts, journals, memoirs, and diaries
Theoretical, historical, and genre studies of travel writing (e.g. personal witness narratives, journalism, guidebooks, illustrated accounts, shipwreck narratives, missionary literature, verse travels) or travel fiction (e.g. travel satire and parody, the travel novel, fantasy travels, utopias and dystopias)
Historical studies of travel publishing, marketing, and dissemination; of translation; of foreign language publishing; and of international or cross-border readerships
Critical studies of significant travel writers, novelists, poets, dramatists, and other artists in relation to travel culture
Critical or biographical studies of writers and artists in the context of Grand Tourism, mass tourism, popular publishing, consumerism, or other social or historical movements
Critical or theoretical studies of the literatures of travel in terms of gender, sexuality, race, and class; imperialism, colonialism, and postcolonialism; exploration and discovery; residence abroad; emigration and immigration
Transnational cultural studies

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Proposals should be made to Benjamin Colbert: B.Colbert@wlv.ac.uk