CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE OF PACIFIC COAST PHILOLOGY:

LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK

PAMLA's journal, Pacific Coast Philology, will publish a special issue on
literature and the history of the book. Papers are invited on literary
relationships to aspects of print and manuscript culture. Topics include,
but are not limited to, reading practices, relations between writers and
publishers, the material book, publishing practices, authorship, censorship,
textual transmission, relationships between oral culture and the cultures of
writing and print, literature in the electronic age.

Please send inquiries and submissions to

Professor Beverly Voloshin

Department of English

San Francisco State University

1600 Holloway Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94132

Inquiries may also be sent via email to <mailto:volsand_at_pacbell.net>
volsand_at_pacbell.net.

The deadline for submission is 1 March 2005. The special issue will appear
at the beginning of 2006.

Guidelines for submission. Pacific Coast Philology follows a policy of blind
submission: authors are asked to submit their essays in triplicate with the
author's name on the cover sheet only. Essays should be between 4,500 and
8,000 words in length (there is flexibility at the upper end), and in
format, they should follow the most recent MLA Style Manual.

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