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SEL invites historical and critical articles of moderate length (ca. 7,000 words not to exceed 8,000 words including endnotes) that contribute significantly to the understanding of English literature, 1500–1900. We will not consider articles being simultaneously submitted elsewhere, nor will we print articles slated to appear in a book published within a year of scheduled publication by SEL .

The editorial office, editors, and anonymous reviewers use ScholarOne for communication about submissions, reports, revisions, and decisions. ScholarOne's online process allows us to track submission and review processes more efficiently and to streamline workflow. Receipt of manuscripts will be acknowledged by email. Editorial decisions often take four months.

SEL only reviews books in a commissioned Omnibus Review that concludes each of our issues. We do not assign individual reviews.

1. Submissions should be double-spaced throughout, including inset quotations and endnotes, and should be prepared in conformity with the Chicago Manual of Style , 17th edition. We prefer Times New Roman 12 pt. font.

2. We strongly encourage authors to prepare their manuscripts in conformity with SEL 's house style. For more information on SEL 's house style, please refer to our manuscript preparation sheet .

3. All manuscripts should be submitted online at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sel as either a Word or PDF file.

a. To begin the submission process, please login to ScholarOne , the journal's unique manuscript site.

b. After logging on, use the Author Center to guide you through the steps to upload your manuscript and any additional files. For questions and a user guide, please click the "Get Help Now" button at the top right of every screen. Additional help is available through Site Support .

4. We encourage authors to submit a short cover letter and an abstract of 100 words or fewer with their article via ScholarOne. The Author Center will prompt you to upload files for a cover letter, an abstract, or image files.

5. For more information about submitting art in digital format, please see our Author FAQ page.

In situations where electronic submission is difficult or unavailable, the editors will accept submissions via regular mail. Please contact the SEL office at 713-348-4697 or [email protected] for specific guidelines.

For all other questions, please feel free to contact: Managing Editor SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 Rice University MS-46 6100 Main Street Houston, TX 77005-1892 713-348-4697 [email protected]

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Within the decade, twenty-six current or future members of the Editorial Board publish articles in SEL .

Carroll Camden retires; Edward O. Doughtie becomes Editor. Despite the founding of many other journals devoted to fields similar to those represented in SEL , in the Autumn 1973 issue Doughtie announces that “all manuscripts received between October 1, 1973, and June 1, 1974, will be returned unread.” The moratorium does not help much. By Autumn 1974 articles accepted for publication cannot appear for three to four years.

Paul Fussell begins his review of Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century : “‘Studies’ is the right word for the books of 1974, just as ‘research’ would be the wrong one … Many of these new books add to our awareness. Few add to our knowledge.”

Thomas P. Roche receives more than 150 books in Renaissance nondramatic literature: “The preparation and writing of this review has been the most dispiriting task I have ever had to perform.” Two and three years later, the number of titles in the field sent for review diminishes to fewer than 50.

Michael Lieb publishes the article “ Holy Place: A Reading of Paradise Lost ” in the Winter issue of Volume 17.

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Kathleen Blake publishes her article “ Sue Bridehead ‘The Woman of the Feminist Movement ’” in the Autumn issue and David M. Bergeron publishes his piece “ The Wax Figures in The Duchess of Malfi ” in the Spring issue.

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Nora Gilbert is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas who jointly specializes in Victorian literature and classical Hollywood film, with particular research interests in gender and sexuality studies and the intersection of law and culture. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship (Stanford UP, 2013), and has articles published or forthcoming in PMLA , Film & History , Nineteenth-Century Literature , Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies , Victorian Review , Eighteenth-Century Life , and JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory . She is presently at work on two separate but thematically related book projects, which are provisionally entitled Gone Girls: The Runaway Woman Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and Unwomaned: Hollywood Stardom and the Threat of Female Independence.  

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Timothy Boswell has been managing editor at Studies in the Novel since June 2012. In 2014 he earned university-wide recognition for his work at the journal. Dr. Boswell also works as a book editor, writing coach, and ghostwriter and has developed over forty books for various clients, including fiction, memoirs, company histories, and family histories. His own current project, a novel titled  Harvest of Days , is speculative fiction. He earned a Ph.D. in English (creative writing) from the University of North Texas in 2012. 

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Mfs  invites the submission of articles (6,000-9,000 words) offering historical, interdisciplinary, theoretical, and cultural approaches to modern and contemporary narrative. Please visit our online submission system to upload your essay:  http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mfs

Documentation format should include internal citation, endnotes, and full Works Cited in accordance with the latest edition of the MLA Style Manual.  Mfs  welcomes the submission of illustrations. Low-resolution images are acceptable for submission, but authors must provide high-resolution images for publication.

Publication is contingent on authors granting exclusive license to Johns Hopkins UP to publish their essays for the Department of English at Purdue University. Authors may subsequently reprint their essays in books that they publish, provided they acknowledge the material's previous publication in  Mfs .

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MFS: Modern Fiction Studies  publishes original essays of 6,000-9,000 words. We do not permit simultaneous submission. We have initial in-house screening of essays. If we decide not to send an essay out for external review, it will be rejected within a month. Essays we like are sent out to two external readers using the blind review system. After external review, essays are either 1) accepted, 2) accepted contingent on revision, or 3) marked as revise and resubmit. This review takes around 6-9 weeks. If accepted  contingent , the author must address concerns of the external reports and send us a revised essay and explain to us how the revised version engages the reader reports. A decision on these essays is then made in house, typically within a week or two of receiving the revision. Authors who are invited to revise and resubmit must also explain how they’ve addressed the readers’ concerns. We send the revised and resubmitted essay out again for external review (often to one or both of the original readers). This may take another 6-9 weeks.

All book reviews are solicited. We do not consider unsolicited reviews.

Special Issue Call for Papers: Fictions of the Pandemic

Guest editors: roanne kantor (stanford) and ragini tharoor srinivasan (rice)   deadline for submissions: 1 july 2024.

For this special issue, MFS invites contributors to consider and problematize the role of literary scholarship in apprehending, producing, and critiquing fictions of the pandemic. “Fictions of the Pandemic” pursues the imaginative structures, disputed narratives, cross-pollinating conspiracies, and contested discourses emergent from the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the recognition of the novel coronavirus in late 2019, various interconnected fictions of the pandemic have circulated in the public sphere, from the idea of universally shared trauma to the promise of technological solutions. These fictions have been countered in turn by the realities of entrenched racial and class disparities and of global vaccine apartheid. Meanwhile, new characters have emerged as the ambivalent subjects of this historical conjuncture: the essential worker, the antimasker, the long-hauler, the COVID minimizer, and the masked minority. Likewise, the dominant plot points, narrative frameworks, and even genres of fictions of the pandemic have shifted (from the romance of revolutionary change to the tragedy of eclipsed horizons) as we move from the acute phase of coordinated global response to COVID to the chronic phase of capitulation to the virus as a normalized and never-ending event.

We propose that the COVID pandemic necessitates a thoroughgoing rethinking of literary objects and literary methods. What kind of object is “pandemic fiction,” given the slipperiness of the COVID response itself: alternately criminal or progressive, inadequate or an overreaction, depending on where you sit on the Zoom chessboard? What is the work of critique when reactions of suspicion, paranoia, and denial—about the gravity of the pandemic, the motives of policymakers, or even the actions of one’s neighbors—feel owned by the right, seemingly to relegate progressive scholarship to gestures of hope, faith, and repair? How do we, as thinkers of the present and explainers of the future, reckon with a world in which our critical practices are so evidently entangled with and defined by our others? What stories did we tell during the pandemic, and why? Whose stories can we tell now, and whose are verboten? What kinds of questions should we have asked, and why didn’t we ask them? What fictions of the past, present, and future have we had to forgo or forget in light of COVID-19? And in what ways might we, as literature scholars, be exactly the right, and wrong, constituency to pursue these questions, given dueling investments in the reparative potential of narrative, on the one hand, and widespread skepticism about the radicality of close reading, on the other?       

Contributors are invited to pursue any of the above questions and other related topics, including:

  • Counterfactual thinking and theorizing in the pandemic-era; narratives that imagine the (lost) pasts and futures that-would-have-been in the absence of COVID-19; questions of periodization      
  • Real-time collaborations in fiction-writing and fiction-reading (such as Wattpad, Scriggler, Booksie, and similar sites)      
  • Critique and post-critique in an era of conspiracy, denialism, suspicion, cruel optimism, and in light of pandemic affects such as doubt, melancholy, relief, fury, jealousy, and grief
  • Infrastructural aesthetics, architecture, and the built environment given transformations in work from home, the real estate market, and evolving relations to public space; the literary registration of infrastructural decay      
  • Technologies and artifacts of the pandemic; objects such as masks, tests, vaccines, and ventilators, as well as software applications for infection surveillance, video communications, and the circulation of information in both its original and “mis” variants; the narratives of “UX” that frame their ideal anticipated user and inevitable obsolescence      
  • The suppression and minimization of pandemic narratives by mainstream media, global publishing houses, and literary agents 
  • Reading the atmospheric and affective traces of the COVID-19 pandemic in fiction that does not explicitly deal with the pandemic      
  • Transformations in the “pandemic fiction” genre before and after COVID; teaching fictions of the pandemic; pandemic-era transformations, innovations and upheavals in literary pedagogy; the aesthetics of pandemic fiction; ecocritical and health humanities approaches to fictions of the pandemic

We seek surprising, ambitious, theoretically-rich, and provocative responses to this CFP. Essays that creatively introduce elements of fiction, fictionality, or generic hybridity into their analyses of fictions of the pandemic are also welcome.    

Essays should be 7,000–9,000 words, including all quotations and bibliographic references, and should follow the MLA Handbook (9th edition) for internal citations and Works Cited. Please submit your essay via the online submission form at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mfs . Queries ahead of submission may be directed to Roanne Kantor ([email protected]) and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan ( [email protected] ).      

In addition to its continuing commitment to publishing the best scholarship on modern and contemporary fiction, MFS is also especially interesting in pursuing topics of current importance to literature and the humanities in general, including:

  • Critical AI Studies and The Fictionality of AI/Machine Learning/Large Language Models
  • Fictions of Conspiracy Theory
  • The Future of Literary Studies in the University
  • Populism and its Fictions
  • Discourses of Neoliberalism
  • Migration and Nation
  • Discourses of Sustainability
  • Literary Studies, Climate Change, Species Extinction
  • Fictions and New Directions in Critical Race Theory

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Maren Linett

Editorial Assistants

Matt Morgenstern          Rochel Bergman          Emily M. Pearson

Editorial Collective

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Pennsylvania State University         Elizabeth DeLoughrey, UCLA            Joseph Keith, Binghamton University        Anne Garland Mahler, University of Virginia         Timothy Melley, Miami University          Kalpana Seshadri, Boston College            Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Rice University        Aarthi Vadde, Duke University         Jay Watson, University of Mississippi     

Purdue Advisory Board

Marlo Denice David      Wendy Flory          Sandor Goodhart      Shaun F. D. Hughes      Robert Paul Lamb          Alfred J. López          Jennifer Freeman Marshall          Daniel Morris          Nancy J. Peterson          Arkady Plotnitsky          Aparajita Sagar

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Michael Awkward, University of Michigan      Herman Beavers,  University of Pennsylvania           Michael Bérubé,  Pennsylvania State University           Stephen J. Burn,  University of Glasgow           Debra Rae Cohen,  University of South Carolina           Santanu Das, All Souls College, Oxford    Laura Doyle,  University of Massachusetts           Jonathan Eburne,  Pennsylvania State University           Anne Fernald,  Fordham University           Ellen G. Friedman,  College of New Jersey           Scott Herring,  Indiana University           Peter Kalliney,  University of Kentucky           John T. Matthews,  Boston University           Deborah E. McDowell,  University of Virginia           Mark McGurl,  Stanford University           James McNaughton,  University of Alabama           Alan Nadel,  University of Kentucky           Kinohi Nishikawa,  Princeton University           Stacey Olster,  SUNY, Stony Brook           Robert Dale Parker,  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign           Adam Parkes,  University of Georgia           Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan,  University of California, Irvine           Judith Roof,  Rice University           Michael Rubenstein,  SUNY, Stony Brook     Paul Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania     Ramón Saldívar,  Stanford University     Urmila Seshagiri,  University of Tennessee, Knoxville      Anna Snaith, King’s College London      Stephen Hong Sohn,  Fordham University           Siobhan Somerville,  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign           Susan Strehle,  SUNY, Binghamton           John J. Su,  Marquette University           Phillip Wegner,  University of Florida

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  1. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

    We welcome you to Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, a journal of historical and critical studies published quarterly for Rice University by Johns Hopkins University Press. For more than 50 years, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 has been proud to publish some of the finest scholarship in the field of English studies. - Logan D. Browning, Publisher and Executive Editor

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    SEL only reviews books in a commissioned Omnibus Review that concludes each of our issues. We do not assign individual reviews. ... Managing Editor SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 Rice University MS-46 6100 Main Street Houston, TX 77005-1892 713-348-4697 [email protected].

  3. SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

    SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for the commissioned omnibus review of recent studies in ...

  4. Project MUSE

    The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for the commissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue.

  5. Studies in English Literature

    Studzes in English Literature is a quarterly journal of historical and critical studies. Each issue will be devoted to one of four fields: W I N T E R: English Renaissance S P R I N G: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama S U M M E R: Restoration and Eighteenth Century A U T U M N: Nineteenth Century EDITOR

  6. Studies in English Literature

    volume of SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 that most nearly achieve these qualities and that have given the editors the greatest pleasure to read. Volume 56 Award Recipients— Michael Ursell for his Winter 2016 essay, "Interinanimation and Lifelessness in John Donne's Book Studies," and Geoff Quilley for his Autumn 2016 essay,

  7. The Review of English Studies

    Volume 74 Issue 317 November 2023 Editors Colin Burrow Juliette Atkinson Philip Connell Fiona Green Daniel Wakelin Editorial Board About the journal The Review of English Studies was founded in 1925 to publish literary-historical research in all areas of English literature and the English language from the earliest period to the present …

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    Devin Garofalo, Book Review Editor. Devin M. Garofalo (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature, formalism, empire and race, science studies, and the environmental humanities.

  10. Advance articles

    Matt Foley The Review of English Studies, hgad116, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad116 Published: 12 January 2024 Section: Review Extract View article Daniel Blank. Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England Jennie Challinor The Review of English Studies, hgae003, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgae003

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    Studies in the Novel has been published quarterly by the Department of English at the University of North Texas since 1969. Its aim is to present excellence in criticism of the novel in all periods, by established and emerging novelists worldwide, from all interpretive approaches. Each issue contains five to six articles, an occasional review ...

  14. SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

    SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for the commissioned omnibus review of recent studies in ...

  15. Studies in Romanticism

    Studies in Romanticism is the flagship journal of Romantic literary studies. Edited at Boston University since its founding there in 1961, SiR has been committed to advancing the study of literature and culture in the dynamic "Romantic Century" of 1750-1850. International in sympathies and interdisciplinary in approaches, SiR publishes the highest caliber scholarship on British, Anglophone ...

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    The Hopkins Press Journals Ethics and Malpractice Statement can be found at the ethics-and-malpractice page.. Peer Review Policy. Studies in the Novel requires that submitted articles be original work and non-simultaneous submissions.The editor-in-chief performs a preliminary review, determining whether to make a decision regarding an article's suitability for this journal without peer-review.

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    Patrick Outhwaite The Review of English Studies, Volume 74, Issue 317, November 2023, Pages 795-811, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad076 Abstract View article Defining Rochester's Canon in the Eighteenth Century: The Role of Bragge and Curll Get access Nicholas Fisher

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    ariel: A Review of International English Literature, is focused on the critical and scholarly study of global literatures in English.The journal publishes articles in postcolonial studies exploring issues of colonial power and resistance as well as innovative scholarship on globalization, new forms and sites of exploitation and colonization in an age of transnational capitalism, displacement ...

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