The publisher seeks specialists on Neidhart and Oswald to provide entries as described below. Pls respond if interested to James Hardin, at [log in to unmask]
Thanks in advance.
JH
Dennis Poupard and Richard Layman are now charged with producing all of the volumes in Gale's Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC; authors who died in the 1800s and works published during the century). We will be doing six volumes this year and sixteen per year thereafter; We are also doing a series of Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism (CMLC; authors who died before 1400 and works published before 1400). We will be taking over other sets in Gale's Literary Criticism Series, beginning in late fall 2010.
Each volume of NCLC and CMLC contains about 280,000 words, most of which is republished full-text critical articles and excerpts from books. Typically a volume contains three entries, though it is possible that a full volume might occasionally be devoted to a major figure. Entries may be devoted to an author, a work, or a topic; we would like a mixture. Entries are signed. These volumes are not focused on a single theme or national literature. A volume may, for example, contain one entry on an American (or Greek) writer, one on a Brit, and one on a German work.
An entry comprises these elements: 1) an original 1500-word introduction, providing general information about the subject of the entry; 2) a primary bibliography taken from DLB and updated as necessary (with genre designations for each work added); 3) a healthy selection of criticism--80,000-100,000 words worth usually--each critical essay introduced with a one- or two-sentence description; and 4) an annotated bibliography of some 20 entries for significant figures.
When an entry is assigned, we will provide the contributor a list of critical essays that have been previously published and a list of critical essays cited in MLA that are potentials for inclusion now. The scholar is encouraged to suggest entries not previously published and not among the MLA citations, but inclusion depends on the availability of reprint licenses.
We ask that the contributor make his or her choice of essays to be included in the entry first, so we can begin clearing permissions and gathering the texts. Within a reasonable time--6 to 8 weeks in the beginning--we would like the 1500-word introduction, primary bib, and annotated bib. We will pay each contributor $500 on acceptance of ready-to-print copy.
Introductions are quite general and, as can be seen, relatively brief. The heart of these entries are the reprints of criticism (from all periods, including excerpts from books).
Contributors first will receive the primary and secondary bibliographies, and their first task is to choose the secondary lit. to be reprinted. He or she then can review the primary bibliography to see if additional items need to be added.
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