English, both at Centenary and on an academic global scale, is a multifaced, useful, and widely applicable field of study. This guide aims to highlight the different aspects of English taught here at Centenary while also providing resources and general kn
ELT publishes articles on fiction, poetry, drama, or subjects of cultural interest in the 1880–1920 period of British literature. Submissions are typically 20–25 double-spaced pages.
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.
Arthuriana is the quarterly for the International Arthurian Society-North American Branch. This peer-reviewed journal considers all aspects of Arthurian and chivalric cultures from the Middle Ages to the current moment. Arthuriana publishes work by the most respected and innovative scholars in these fields as well as book reviews, brief notices on a wide range of medieval and Arthurian subjects, and formal notices of the activities of the International Arthurian Society.
The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary criticism. It seeks to publish articles which offer new readings of familiar works or authors, or which draw critical attention to new or neglected works. It is also interested in articles on art, music, and film, or on any other subject that enhances cultural understanding.
Founded in 1966, The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism publishes studies of the language, sources, historical and political contexts, social milieus, and aesthetics of Chaucer's poetry, as well as associated studies on medieval literature, philosophy, theology, and mythography relevant to an understanding of the poet, his contemporaries, his predecessors, and his audiences.
The Journal aims to document studies in Irish literature and its contexts. Situated in Japan and supported and produced by a broad constituency of Japanese and foreign scholars, writers and readers, the Journal offers special scholarly perspectives on Irish studies.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international journal, published annually in hardcover, committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642.
Renaissance Drama is dedicated to the investigation of traditional canons of drama and the exploration of the significance of performance in early modern cultures. Each issue presents essays that question or apply newer forms of interpretation to the study of early modern plays, theater, and performance. Articles also address works written in traditions other than the English, the discourses that shaped and were shaped by varied institutions of drama across Europe and beyond, and manifestations of performance and performativity both on and off the theatrical stage.
Milton Quarterly publishes in-depth articles, review essays, and shorter notes and notices about Milton's works, career, literary surroundings, and place in cultural history. In striving to be the most reliable and up-to-date source of information about John Milton, it also furnishes reports on conferences, abstracts of recent scholarship, and book reviews by prominent scholars in the field.
OLR devotes itself to outstanding writing in deconstruction, literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, political theory and related forms of exploratory thought. Founded in 1977 it remains responsive to new concerns and committed to patient, inventive reading as the wellspring of critical research.
The Review of English Studies is the leading scholarly journal in the field of English literature and the English language from the earliest period up to today. Emphasis is on historical scholarship rather than interpretive criticism, though fresh evaluation of writers and their work are also offered in the light of newly discovered or existing material.
Shakespeare Bulletin is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal which publishes articles at the cutting edge of Shakespearean and early modern performance studies and theatre history.
The Shakespeare on Film newsletter is a feature of the Shakepeare Bulletin which works to provide film reviews and a record of performance and scholarship in a variety of media throughout the world not only by Shakespeare but also by other early modern dramatists.
Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ) is a leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, notes, and book reviews. Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library by Oxford University Press, SQ is peer-reviewed and extremely selective. The essays in their published pages span the field, including scholarship about new media and early modern race, textual and theater history, ecocritical and posthuman approaches, psychoanalytic and other theories, and archival and historicist work.
Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation is a peer-reviewed, online, multimedia journal that welcomes original scholarship engaging with the afterlives of Shakespearean texts and their literary, filmic, multimedia, and critical histories.
A succint and comprehensible list of Britain’s most prominent authors spanning from the Beowulf poet to J.K. Rowling. Provided by the Oxford Royale Academy.
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