Call for Essays
Placing Charlotte Smith
Eds. Jacqueline Labbe and Elizabeth Dolan
Lehigh University Press
Co-editors Jacqueline Labbe and Elizabeth Dolan invite essay proposals for an edited collection entitled Placing Charlotte Smith, under consideration for publication by Lehigh University Press. Two hundred and ten years after Charlotte Smith’s death and nearly a decade after the publication of The Works of Charlotte Smith, and of the volume of essays Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism (both Pickering & Chatto), Smith scholarship is coming of age. This volume of essays was inspired by the second conference to focus on Charlotte Smith, held at Chawton House Library in October 2016. Conference presenters as well as other scholars are invited to submit 500 word proposals for 7000-8000 word essays.
Essays might address any of the following questions: What are we learning about Charlotte Smith’s place in the canon, or in the historical development of various genres (as well as their historicizing role)? What sort of commentary does her placement of characters in the historical past offer? What attitudes do her works demonstrate about place and the idea of a polis/nation? Where are the places Smith is or might be memorialized? What are the various meanings of the natural places she explores in her fiction, poetry, journalism, and children’s literature? Is there now such a thing as a global Smith?
A 500-word proposal, accompanied by a brief c.v. must be submitted to both Elizabeth Dolan ([log in to unmask]) and Jacqueline Labbe ([log in to unmask]) by 30 January 2017. Full essays of accepted proposals will be due by 15 September 2017.
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