Invitation to Politics, Literature, and Film Book Series!
Having published over fifty books, Lexington Politics, Literature, and Film series continues to seek new proposal for academic works. A description of the series is below.
This interdisciplinary series examines the intersection of politics with literature and/or film. The series is receptive to works that use a variety of methodological approaches, focus on any period from antiquity to the present, and situate their analysis in national, comparative, or global contexts. Politics, Literature, and Film seeks to be truly interdisciplinary by including authors from all the social sciences and humanities, such as political science, sociology, psychology, literature, philosophy, history, religious studies, and law. The series is open to both American and non-American literature and film. By putting forth bold and innovative ideas that appeal to a broad range of interests, the series aims to enrich our conversations about literature, film, and their relationship to politics.
All manuscripts will be double-blind peer-reviewed. Once the manuscript has gone into production, all costs will be covered by Lexington Books. All titles are released first as hardcover and ebooks and later as paperbacks (usually within 18 months). Titles available as paperback become available as a free exam copy for any professor considering adoption of the book for their course.
The primary market of Lexington Books is the academic library market, with the objective that their books will remain on library bookshelves and databases for decades to inform current and future scholars. Lexington attends most major disciplinary conferences as well as regional ones. For every conference Lexington attends, there is a corresponding catalog highlighting the titles on display in their exhibit booth. Those catalogs are also direct mailed to anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000 recipients carefully chosen for relevance based on discipline-specific mailing lists. Lexington publishes quantitative books and qualitative books, left-leaning books and right-leaning books, historical and contemporary titles, theoretical and practical. Lexington Books itself is a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group.
For any potential authors who may be interested in publishing with us, refer them to Lee Trepanier (ltrepani@samford.edu).
Our academic board is Richard Avarmenko (University of Wisconsin), Linda Beail (Point Loma Nazarene University), Claudia Franziska Brühwiler (St. Gallen University),Tim Burns (Baylor University), Paul A. Cantor (University of Virginia), Joshua Diestag (University of California Los Angles), Lilly Goren (Carroll University), Kimberly Hurd Hale (Coastal Carolina University), Sara MacDonald (Huron University), Andrew Moore (St. Thomas Univeresity), Natalie Taylor (Skidmore College), Ann Ward (Baylor University), and Catherine Zuckert (Notre Dame).
If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
Lee Trepanier
Selective Books in the Politics, Literature, and Film Series
John S. Nelson's Defenses Against the Dark Arts: The Political Education of Harry Potter and His Friends
Uner Daglier's The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion
Leslie Marsh's Theology and Geometry: Essays on John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
Timothy McCranon's and Steven Michel's Science Fiction and Political Philosophy: From Bacon to Black Mirror
Lauara D. Young's and Nusta Carranza Ko's Game of Thrones and the Theories of International Relations
Helen J. Knowles', Bruce E. Altschuler's, and Jaclyn Schildkraut's Lights, Camera, Execution! Cinematic Portrayals of Capital Punishment
Matthew Shipe's and Scott Dill's Updike and Politics: New Considerations
Aimee Pozorski's AIDS-Trauma and Politics: American Literature and the Search for a Witness
Beibei Guan's and Wayne Cristaudo's Baudelaire Contra Benjamin: A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism
Joel R. Campbell's and Gigi Gokcek's The Final Frontier: International Relations and Politics Through Star Trek and Star Wars
Amanda DiPaolo's and Jamie Gillies' The Politics of Twin Peaks
Jerome C. Foss' Flannery O'Connor and the Perils of Governing by Tenderness
Sara MacDonald's and Barry Craig's The Coen Brothers and the Comedy of Democracy
Steven Johnson’s Wonder and Cruelty: Ontological War in It’s a Wonderful Life
Andrew Moore’s Shakespeare Between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics
Steven J. Michel’s Sinclair Lewis and American Democracy
Alejandra M. Salinas’ Liberty, Individuality, and Democracy in Jorge Luis Borges
Alessandro Maurini’s Aldous Huxley: The Political Thought of a Man of Letters
Elizabeth Amato’s The Pursuit of Happiness and the American Regime: Political Theory in Literature
Joshua Bowman’s Imagination and Environmental Political Thought: Aftermath of Thoreau
Susan McWilliams Brandt’s The American Road Trip and American Political Thought
Khalil M. Habib’s and L. Joseph Herbert Jr.’s The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom
Eric T. Kasper’s and Quentin D. Vieregge’s The United States in Film: Part of Our National Culture
Nivedita Bagchi’s Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction
Timothy Haglund’s Rabelais’s Contempt for Fortune: Pantagruelism, Politics, and Philosophy
Brian Smith's Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer
David Davies' Milton Socratic Rationalism: The Conversations of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost
Andy Connolly's Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition
John Douglas Steinmetz’s Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda: The Political Development of Hollywood 1907-1927
John Heyrman’s Politics, Hollywood Style: American Political Films from Mr. Smith to Selma
Michelle C. Pautz’s Civil Servants on the Silver Screen: Hollywood’s Depiction on Government and Bureaucrats
Sara MacDonald's and Andrew Moore's Mad Men: The Death and Redemption of American Democracy