Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
General Editor: Bernard Lightman
Pickering and Chatto is pleased to announce a major new series of
scholarly works on nineteenth century British science and its cultural and
social contexts. The Editor and the Editorial Board invite proposals for
new books for publication in the series. Although this will be primarily a
monograph series, we are also willing to consider edited collections.
Proposals may address any aspect of nineteenth century British science,
for example 'disciplines' such as geology, biology, botany, astronomy,
physics, chemistry, medicine, and mathematics. Proposals may also focus
on themes within the social sciences, natural philosophy, natural history,
the alternative sciences, and popular science. In addition they may
examine science in relation to one or more of its many contexts, including
literature, politics, religion, class, gender, colonialism and
imperialism, material culture, visual culture, and print culture. The
focus will be on Britain, but we are willing to consider works with a
comparative and international dimension that are centered on Britain.
We seek manuscripts of high quality that may perhaps be seen by other
publishers as too specialized. Our plan is to publish a first run of
about 400 copies in hardcover. We welcome proposals from senior scholars
as well as from recent PhDs who have revised their dissertations
extensively for publication. Proposals should be eight to ten pages in
length and should include a brief overview of the relevant scholarship in
the field, the contribution which your work will make to the field, a
breakdown of the contents by chapter, an account of the number and type of
illustrations, the length, competing books, and the intended audience. As
we are unable to offer contracts on prospective works, proposals should be
submitted when the manuscript is complete.
Send your proposals to:
Bernard Lightman, 309 Bethune College, York University, 4700 Keele St.,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3 ([log in to unmask]). If the proposal is
considered promising then the General Editor will invite you to submit
your manuscript for full evaluation.
Members of the Editorial Board: William Brock, Janet Browne, Geoffrey
Cantor, Fa-Ti Fan, Aileen Fyfe, Bruce Hunt, Bowdoin van Riper, Ann Shteir,
Sally Shuttleworth, Robert Smith, and Jon Topham.
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