The MHRA Critical Texts series provides affordable critical editions of lesser-known literary texts that are a) out of copyright and b) not currently in print (or are difficult to obtain). These are scholarly editions, but their accessible price also makes them ideal teaching texts. The series languages are: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

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We are looking to expand the range of texts and authors covered, and to encourage new editors to contribute to the series. We therefore invite proposals for projects to head up this expansion.

The texts edited may be ones that have been left out of the critical/teaching canon as a result of belonging to marginalised/minoritised individuals: women, people of colour, indigenous writers, for example. They may be texts that have been eclipsed by better-known pieces, but deserve examination in their own right. They may be anthologies of extracts that work together to track the progression of a particular debate or the development of an individual author’s ideas. There is also capacity for essay-style introductions.

The series can make a particularly good publishing space for ECRs who have worked on such texts during a doctoral or postdoctoral project. We therefore ask colleagues to draw the attention of this call to any such suitable individuals.

Proposals should be submitted on this form: https://www.mhra.org.uk/doc/ct-proposals.docx

Informal expressions of interest can be addressed to the General Editor, Dr Jessica Goodman, at jessica.goodman@stcatz.ox.ac.uk.

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