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Call for Chapter Proposals: Sylvia Plath in Context

Call for Chapter Proposals

Sylvia Plath in Context to be published by Cambridge University Press.

Edited by Tracy Brain.

Sylvia Plath in Context will be part of Cambridge University Press’s highly regarded Literature in Context series. You can learn more about the series, and link to some of the volumes that have already appeared, from here: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-general-interest/series/literature-context

Each chapter of Sylvia Plath in Context will focus on a key context out of which Plath’s work emerged, rather than being directly about her texts. The series’ descriptor is helpful:

Each of these volumes focuses on an individual writer, offering lively, accessible and relatively short essays, by leading scholars, on the many contexts – literary, political, intellectual, social and cultural – that have a bearing on his or her work. Biographical and literary influences on the writer, publishing history and the creative afterlife of the work are also addressed. … Each volume offers comprehensive information and comment to clarify and illuminate the life and work of the literary figure concerned.

This Call for Proposals aims to cast the net widely, to see what exciting ideas may come in. I am seeking new and fresh voices, and original pieces, for what promises to be a significant new contribution to Plath scholarship. So please do consider sending me a proposal, concentrating on an area that you think has formed Plath’s work, and which you think will enrich her readers’ ability to understand it. Please note that each 4000 word chapter will need to be written in compliance with ‘fair dealing’ and must not have been published elsewhere.

If you are interested, please send a 200-word chapter proposal as well as a 100-word biography, to: t.brain@bathspa.ac.uk

The deadline for these materials is 15 May 2016.

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