New series announcement: Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief

 

Exeter University Press is pleased to announce a new book series: Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief (https://tinyurl.com/davsf3b4). This series provides a venue for growing scholarly interest in folklore narratives, supernatural belief systems and the communities that sustain them.

Global in scope, the series will encompass milieus ranging from ancient to contemporary times and encourage empirically-grounded, source-rich studies. The editors favour the broad multidisciplinary approach which has characterised the study of folklore and the supernatural, and that has brought together insights from historians, folklorists, anthropologists, and many other branches of the humanities and social sciences.

The series welcomes proposals from scholars at all career stages, including proposals for multi-author works. Volumes might cover topics as widely spaced thematically, temporally and geographically as: imaginary parasites in antiquity; medieval shamanism; early modern water spirits in the Pacific; ghost-lore in nineteenth-century American newspapers; and COVID urban legends from around the globe. In short, the series seeks the best folklore writing in the world today.

The first two volumes to appear in the series will be the paperback edition of The Folklore of Cornwall: The Oral Tradition of a Celtic Nation by Ronald M. James (https://tinyurl.com/7ta54mdz), and Simon Young’s The Boggart: Folklore, History and Dialect (https://tinyurl.com/vuetnsc5). A CFP for a multi-author volume on European social fairies is to be found here https://tinyurl.com/2mzhs5d8.

For questions or to submit a proposal, please contact Anna Henderson at a.henderson@exeterpress.co.uk or one or both of the series editors: Simon Young, University of Virginia (CET, Siena) at simonryoung@cantab.net; Davide Ermacora, University of Turin at davide.ermacora@unito.it. The editors are also putting together an email list for the series: if you want then please get in touch and they will include you so that you will be notified of new titles and calls.

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