Founded in 1979, and since 1998 an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, Camden House continues its primary stress on scholarly books dealing with German-language literature and culture. In recent years it has begun also to concentrate on German film studies, American literature studies, and cultural history.
Camden House is interested in scholarly manuscripts dealing with topics of a literary or cultural nature or with literary figures and their works. Emphasis is on quality and currency of scholarship as well as a clear and direct writing style.
In 2007 Camden House completed publication of the ten-volume Camden House History of German Literature. The series has been greeted as a monumental achievement, the most detailed history of German literature ever published in English. We continue to seek monographs and well-focused collected volumes on German literature, while at the same time branching out into German cultural history and into German film studies with the Screen Cultures series. Our Companion volumes provide new, specially-commissioned essays by well-known international scholars on chief aspects of a major writer or work in German or American literature.
Our program in American literature has recently been re-enlivened by Scott Peeples’s (College of Charleston) editorship of the Literary Criticism in Perspective series. A Continental perspective on North American, especially Canadian, literature is provided by European Studies in North American Literature and Culture, edited by Reingard M. Nischik of the University of Constance, and our latest series in American literature is Mind and American Literature, edited by Linda Simon of Skidmore College.
James Walker is the Camden House Editorial Director. The founding and consulting editor is James Hardin, professor emeritus, University of South Carolina.
Please see the adjoining series pages for information on how to submit manuscripts, or use the electronic proposal form supplied.
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