Call for Contributions: Textures in Nineteenth-Century Material and Literary Cultures

Dear colleagues,
Today, a brief announcement on our own behalf: together with my colleague and fellow DACH Victorianist Anja Hartl, I (Ariane) am co-editing a collection on Textures in Nineteenth-Century Material and Literary Cultures. The volume is under contract for publication in the series 'Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century' (series editor: Pamela Gilbert) at SUNY Press.
The book offers a systematic and interdisciplinary exploration of textures in British nineteenth-century material and literary cultures. It introduces texture as an analytical category and critically productive terminology in the field of (new) materialist and literary studies and shows how textural methodologies can reveal the intricate and complex layering of texts and objects in the long nineteenth century.
We are currently seeking additional contributions for the following three sections of the volume:

• I: Literary Culture: Poetics and Aesthetics
• II: Material Culture: Skin and Hair
• III: Crafts and Consumer Culture: Textiles

We look forward to receiving your proposals (up to 700 words) for full chapters (7,000-8,000 words, due by 1 November 2024), as well as a short biographical note (max. 100 words), by 1 July 2024. Please send them to ariane.de_waal@uni-leipzig.de and anja.hartl@uibk.ac.at.
More details are included in the attached Call for Contributions (see below). Please don't hesitate to get in touch with Anja or me if you have any questions. We are very much looking forward to your contributions!