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Modern Language Quarterly

A Journal of Literary History

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Current Volume: 87

Frequency: Quarterly

Academic Editor: Jeffrey Todd Knight

MLQ accepts articles that pay attention to the broader scope of literary history regardless of genre or period. The focus of publication—and the sticking point—is literary history. General theory, historicist contextualizations, and self-contained close readings are not published. Essays should concern the situation and the action of literary works in time. Chronology must matter to an essay's argument or theoretical concern, together with the impact or interrelationship of imaginative texts.

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Editorial Office:
MLQ
Department of English
University of Washington
Box 354330
Seattle, WA 98195-4330
206-543-6827
206-685-2673 (fax)
mlq@u.washington.edu
depts.washington.edu/mlq

Editor:
Jeffrey Todd Knight, University of Washington

Reviews Editor:
Megan Heffernan

Assistant Editor:
Francesca Colonnese

Editorial Board:
Beatrice Arduini
Jessica Burstein
Laura Chrisman
Heekyoung Cho
Terri DeYoung
Donald Gilbert-Santamaria
Olivia Gunn
Monika Kaup
Charles LaPorte
Brian Reed
Henry Staten
Jesse Oak Taylor
Geoffrey Turnovsky
Ellwood Wiggins
Kathleen Woodward

Advisory Board:
Nancy Armstrong
Robert L. Caserio
Peter Coviello
Wai Chee Dimock
Barbara Fuchs
Paul Giles
Bruce Holsinger
Priya Joshi
Matthew Kirschenbaum
Julia Reinhard Lupton
Deidre Shauna Lynch
Jerome McGann
Anahid Nersessian
Daniel Shore
Doris Sommer
John Whittier Treat
Rebecca Walkowitz
Kenneth W. Warren
Michelle M. Wright

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Essays for consideration should be submitted at the journal's online peer-review site: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-mlq. Essays and inquiries can also be emailed directly to us at mlq@u.washington.edu.

Initial submissions should be carefully prepared according to accepted professional norms. They do not need to conform to the MLQ style sheet prior to acceptance. Please remember to number the pages. Essays do not usually exceed 9,000 words, including notes.

After an article is accepted for publication, we ask that it be provided in Word and prepared in accordance with the MLQ style sheet (see above). A brief abstract (100–200 words) and contributor's note (60 words or less) are also required with the final version of the article.

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Indexed/abstracted in the following: Academic ASAP, Academic OneFile, ArticleFirst, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Biography Index: Past and Present (H.W. Wilson), Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson), Book Review Index Plus, Current Abstracts, Current Contents, Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, Educator's Reference Complete, Electronic Collections Online, European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) PLUS, Expanded Academic ASAP, General OneFile, General Reference Center Gold, General Reference Center, Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson), Humanities Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson), IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur, InfoTrac Custom, InfoTrac Student Edition, Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur, MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association), OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, Professional ProQuest Central, ProQuest 5000, ProQuest Central, Research Library, Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies, Scopus, Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1983 (H.W. Wilson), Student Resources in Context, TOC Premier (Table of Contents), Ulrichsweb, Web of Science.

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ISSN: 0026-7929

e-ISSN: 1527-1943