Race in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

An Oxford University Press Book Series

Edited by Patricia A. Matthew and Manu Samriti Chander

Race in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture attends to the racial and imperial logics that emerged in the long nineteenth century. The series opens up a space in which to consider the complex relationships between, on the one hand, such issues as the popularization of race science and the ecological consequences of rapid colonial expansion and, on the other hand, cultural production and consumption across the globe. While centered on cultures of the late-Enlightenment, Romantic, and Victorian eras, our series pays particular attention to the durability of long nineteenth-century racial and imperial formations in the contemporary moment. Titles included will proceed from the conviction that understanding this key moment in the history of race and empire enables us to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the structures we have 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 and empire. 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