PRESS RELEASE

Monday, 22 January 2007

Leeds, UK

Maney Publishing to publish 

Seventeenth-Century French Studies

Maney Publishing has announced it is to take on the publication of Seventeenth-Century French Studies (SCFS) on behalf of the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies from 2007.

SCFS enhances Maney's already extensive list of modern language journals and monographs.

Michael Gallico, Managing Director of Maney Publishing, is pleased that the Society has chosen Maney to continue the publication: “We are delighted to be able to announce this partnership with the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, and anticipate a strong relationship in the development of this interesting and individual journal.”

The journal's Editor, Dr Amy Wygant of the University of Glasgow, said: "The Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Britain's oldest specialist society in French, is very pleased to be working with Maney Publishing. We look forward to building on our journal's reputation for solid and leading-edge research in the new-look print and on-line versions, and anticipate an exciting future for this internationally-based journal.” 

This annual journal first appeared in 1979, publishing articles in English and French on a broad range of literary, cultural, historical and theoretical topics relating to early modern France. Providing a unique forum for scholarship on the great seventeenth-century French classics, it was encouraged and supported by its first president, Roy C Knight. 

The journal's interdisciplinary scope has since widened to include the full range of modern literary, musical, artistic, political and material concerns. Past issues have included studies of gender, iconography, body criticism, economics, history of costume and the poetics of memory. Recent highlights include John Lyons on Lafayette and gemology, Wendy Perkins on women and silence, Peter Bayley in the education of princes, and Matt Senior on anatomy at the Jardin du roi.

SCFS welcomes submissions from both established figures and young researchers. For more information, please visit www.maney.co.uk/journals/c17.

About the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies

The Society brings together scholars and specialists with a particular interest in early modern France: literature, history, art, music, history of ideas, and philosophy. Membership is open to any scholar or interested member of the public, and students are particularly welcome. The Society holds an annual conference which in 2007 will be held at the University of Liverpool, 6th-8th September. For more information please visit: www.c17.org.uk 

About Maney Publishing

Maney Publishing was founded in 1900 and has offices in the UK in Leeds and London, and in North America. With a collection of more than 70 journals in materials sciences, the humanities and healthcare, Maney is committed to publishing high quality journals in print and electronic formats that are international in scope and peer-reviewed. Please visit for more information.

To download a PDF version of Maney's language and literature catalogue please visit www.maney.co.uk/files/Catalogues/LLCAT2007.pdf 

For further information please contact Alison Holgate, Marketing & PR Assistant, Maney Publishing. Email: a.holgate@maney.co.uk  Tel: 0113 386 8160