Parlor Press Series

Writing Travel

Editor
Jeanne Moskal
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Prospectus Guidelines

New in the Writing Travel series . . .

Vienna Voices: A Traveler Listens to the City of Dreams
Jill Knight Weinberger

Eating Europe: A Meta-Nonfictional Love Story
Jon Volkmer

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Writing Travel

Series Editor
Jeanne Moskal
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Writing Travel series publishes work in the new field of travel studies. Please note: Because of its popularity with readers and authors and a full production schedule of forthcoming titles, we won't begin to accept new submissions for review again until June, 2008.

The series publishes . . .

"On the Amazon." Frontispiece to Three Vassar Girls in South America by Lizzie W. Champney. Boston, 1885. From the copy in The Rare Book Collection, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Editions of out-of-print travel books or previously unpublished travel memoirs
English translations of important travel books in other languages
Theoretical and historical treatments of ways in which travel and travel writing engage such questions as religion, nationalism/cosmopolitanism, and empire; gender and sexuality; race, ethnicity, and immigration; and the history of the book, print culture, and translation
Biographies of significant travelers or groups of travelers (including but not limited to pilgrims, missionaries, anthropologists, tourists, explorers, immigrants)
Critical studies of the works of significant travelers or groups of travelers
Pedagogy of travel and travel literature and its place in curricula
Original travel writing that explicitly engages its generic precedents or the historically complicated conditions of travel.

Prospectus Guidelines
The Writing Travel series will not begin to accept new submissions again until June, 2008. For complete submission guidelines, see

http://www.parlorpress.com/submissions.html

Your proposal should outline the rationale and projected audience for the book and its relation to other books in the field; include the book's table of contents or a chapter outline, the estimated length and the timetable for completion, and the introduction and a sample chapter. Please also send the c.v. of the author or editor.

Contact Information
Queries should be directed to Jeanne Moskal, Department of English, Campus Box 3520, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520. Email inquiries should be directed to editor@parlorpress.com.

Parlor Press is an independent publisher of scholarly and trade titles in print and multimedia formats, including Acrobat eBook and Night Kitchen (TK3). For additional submission information or to find out about Parlor Press publications visit the website, http://www.parlorpress.com, write to Parlor Press, 816 Robinson St., West Lafayette, Indiana, 47906, or e-mail David Blakesley <editor@parlorpress.com>. 765.746.0175.

Submissions . . .

Parlor Press accepts quality submissions for publication consideration. Submissions are peer-reviewed by experts in the subject area. Please review our submission guidelines for complete details.