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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:
Marshall Brown, University of Washington
Assistant Editor:
Timothy Coombs
Editorial Board:
Yomi Braester
Jessica Burstein
Gary Handwerk
Monika Kaup
Charles LaPorte
Raimonda Modiano
Brian M. Reed
Henry Staten
Cynthia Steele
Richard Watts
Sabine Wilke
Advisory Board:
Charles Altieri
Jonathan Arac
Srinivas Aravamudan
Nancy Armstrong
Wai Chee Dimock
Margaret Ferguson
Barbara Fuchs
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Paul Giles
Bruce Holsinger
Linda Hutcheon
Julia Reinhard Lupton
Christie McDonald
Jerome McGann
David Perkins
Marjorie Perloff
David Simpson
Doris Sommer
Garrett Stewart
Brook Thomas
John Treat
Essays for consideration should be e-mailed to mlq@uw.edu, readable by PC, and formatted for WordPerfect or Word.
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 MS Word and prepared in accordance with the MLQ style sheet. 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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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.
Abstractors and Indexers:
Indexed/abstracted in the following: Academic Abstracts FullTEXT Elite, Academic Abstracts FullTEXT Ultra, Academic Research Library, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Abstracts, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, Discovery, Expanded Academic ASAP, General Reference Center Gold, General Reference Centre International, Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907–1984, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities Full Text, Humanities Index, Humanities Index Retrospective, 1907–1984, Humanities International Complete, Humanities International Index, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ), Literary Reference Center, Literature Resource Center, Magazines for Libraries, MLA Bibliography, News and Magazines, OmniFile Full Text V, OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition, Professional Development Collection, Research Library, Scopus, Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907–1984, Student Resource Center College with Expanded Academic ASAP.