A Journal of Literary History

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MLQ focuses on change, both in literary practice and within the profession of literature itself. The journal is open to essays on literary change from the Middle Ages to the present and welcomes theoretical reflections on the relationship of literary change or historicism to feminism, ethnic studies, cultural materialism, discourse analysis, and all other forms of representation and cultural critique. Seeing texts as the depictions, agents, and vehicles of change, MLQ targets literature as a commanding and vital force.

Special issues include

"Performance and History: What History?" (70:1)
—Herbert Blau and Marshall Brown, special issue editors

"Influence" (69:4)
—Andrew Elfenbein, special issue editor

"China in the Twentieth Century" (69:1)
—Wang Ning, special issue editor

"Globalism on the Move" (68:2)
—Marshall Brown, special issue editor

"Genre and History" (67:1)
—Barbara Fuchs and Marshall Brown, special issue editors

"Postcolonialism and the Past" (65:3)
—Barbara Fuchs and David J. Baker, special issue editors

"Feminism in Time" (65:1)
—Margaret Ferguson and Marshall Brown, special issue editors

"National Literary Histories" (64:2)
—Brook Thomas and Marshall Brown, special issue editors

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Frequency: Quarterly