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Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now

Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now

Mesle, Sarah

Hardcover

Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

Literary CriticismWriting InstructionGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0226832031
ISBN13: 9780226832036
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 20 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist expertise.

Humanities experts today are embattled. In a world of crises undermining higher education at every turn, what can still motivate humanists to write? Galvanizing, imaginative, and unrepentantly nerdy, Sarah Mesle's Reasons and Feeling offers practical writing and publishing advice alongside a forcefully affirmative account of why humanities writing matters.

Mesle proposes that writing can help envision sustainable community, but only when we recognize that humanist authority comes from both our reasons and our feelings. Alongside everyday compositional advice--including strategies for addressing different audiences, pitching publications, and managing writing anxiety--readers will find an account of how such craft practices connect to both their intellectual commitments and their historical conditions. Mesle shows how university-trained writers at all levels benefit from embracing a broader range of styles and affects. Doing so helps them harness their writing's community-building potential and makes them better able to value their own expertise, whether they write for the classroom, in public venues, or for the specialized scholarly communities that share their niche, weird, or beloved, objects of study.

Reasons and Feelings draws on Mesle's expertise as a professor of writing and her work as an editor helping academics shift between writing for scholarly venues and journalistic ones. In a voice that's honest, warm, accessible, and bracingly funny, Reasons and Feelings gives humanists a path toward bolder fantasies of the worlds their writing can make.

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