Helen Southworth, assistant professor of literature of the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, has issued a call for papers for a collection of essays on the Hogarth Press that she is compiling.
The collection is tentatively titled Forthcoming from the Hogarth Press: How Leonard and Virginia Woolf Shaped Twentieth Century Publishing.
Southworth says the edited volume will appear in advance of the centenary of the founding of the Press in 2017. The editor is looking for essays that highlight the innovative quality of the Hogarth Press.
Southworth says the edited volume will appear in advance of the centenary of the founding of the Press in 2017. The editor is looking for essays that highlight the innovative quality of the Hogarth Press with a look at the following:
- stories of some of the lesser known artists and their cover art,
- stories of some of the press workers,
- stories of some of the lesser known authors, and
- essays on overlooked titles by well known authors who published with the Hogarth Press.
Southworth says the goal of the collection is to move beyond and complement J.H.Willis’s 1992 history,
Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers : The Hogarth Press, 1917-41, the only book-length study to date.
She expects the collection to assess the impact the Hogarth Press had on the careers of those connected with it who are usually overlooked. It will also deal with the broader issue of how the Hogarth Press shaped book production over the course of the 20th century.
Essays focused on individual authors or groups of authors/artists/texts, etc. are encouraged. Of particular interest is work that highlights archival sources, work which makes use of the now established Hogarth Press archives at Reading University and at Washington State University, for example, as well as author/artist/publisher specific collections.
Also welcome are essays which engage with recent critical work on literary/artistic modernism and publishing and the marketplace, bibliographical environment, networks, celebrity, censorship, and archive studies.
The call for papers asks that themes address (but are not limited to):
- risks that the Woolfs took in terms of possibilities of censorship
- innovations in cover art and other aspects of printing and book marketing
- the Woolfs’ relationships with English provincial writers and with writers from the colonies
- the Woolfs’ engagement with new ideas in the sciences, popular culture, peace studies, fashion, cinema, etc.
- the Woolfs’ collaboration with press workers and with patrons
- the translations the Woolfs themselves engaged in and those they published at the press
- the Hogarth Press in the archives
- the portrayal of the Hogarth Press in contemporary fiction
- the Hogarth Press’ role in a specific author’s, artist’s, press worker’s careers
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the relationship of the Hogarth Press to other presses of the period
Completed essays of 20-25 pages, double spaced, (MLA style preferred), along with queries and suggestions, should be sent to Helen Southworth, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1293.
Deadline for paper submissions is Feb. 15, 2008.
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