Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures

An Oxford University Press Book Series

Edited by Patricia A. Matthew and Manu Samriti Chander

Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures (RNCLC) brings together critical work on the material and intellectual histories of race across in the long nineteenth century. The series considers such issues as enslavement, abolition, race science, colonial expansion, and indigeneity in relation to cultural production and consumption across the globe. Focused on underexplored nineteenth-century archives, RNCLC nevertheless pays particular attention to the relevance of the period’s racial formations to the contemporary moment. Titles included proceed from the conviction that understanding this key moment in the history of race enables us to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the structures inherited from the nineteenth century.

The scholars published in this series will be experts in the long, global nineteenth century and adept in archival access, methodological and theoretical historiography, critical race theories, sociological methodologies, and postcolonial, Black and Indigenous theories, methodologies, and practices. The series’ span from the late-Enlightenment through the early twentieth century will deliver an important intellectual bridge for critical race scholars and will enable larger historical and theoretical narratives to emerge about the ways race is constructed and operates in literature, history, and culture. The series thus aims to produce critical interventions into both the study of the long nineteenth century and the critical study of race. We invite proposals from scholars across the globe and are especially keen to feature minoritized scholars working in fields that have historically excluded Black and brown intellectuals.

Please send cover letter, proposal, and, if available, a sample chapter from the manuscript following OUP’s guidelines to OUP.C19Race@gmail.com