Journal of Modern Literature

Journal of Modern Literature JML is published quarterly by Indiana University Press. No simultaneous submissions or previously published material. We accept only electronic submissions.

JML is a leading scholarly serial in modernist, postmodernist and contemporary studies of literature and culture. It publishes the latest scholarship on modernism, and traces the continuing effects of modernist thought on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary and cultural production. Submit: JML seeks scholarly studies of literature, as well as related arts and cultural artifacts, from 1900

to the present. Submissions should conform to MLA 7th edition style for documentation and manuscript formatting, and should include a 100-150 word abstract and 3-5 keywords. Submissions must be under 9,000 words for the entire submission package, including the abstract, notes and works cited. We respond within three and a half months on average. Submit manuscripts as a Word or RTF attachment to managing editor Laurel Garver at [email protected]. Book reviews are by assignment only. Interested writers should send a query letter stating their areas of expertise, along with a writing sample (.doc or .rtf attachment) to managing editor Laurel Garver at [email protected]. JML is published quarterly in January, April, July and October by Indiana University Press. Issues run 150-204 pages and contain nine to twelve scholarly essays and one to six book reviews. Print and/or electronic subscriptions are available to individuals and institutions. JML was founded in 1970 by Maurice Beebe of Temple University, who served as editor-in-chief until his death in 1986. His successor Morton P. Levitt served as editor until 2003. In 2000, the journal was purchased by Indiana University Press. It is now overseen by eight co-editors: Robert L. Caserio (Pennsylvania State University), Caren Irr (Brandeis University), Janet Lyon (Pennsylvania State University), Daniel O’Hara (Temple University), Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania), Ramon Soto-Crespo (University of Illinois), Robert T. Tally, Jr, (Texas State University), and Jennifer Yusin (Drexel University). JML’s advisory editors are Kevin Bell (Pennsylvania State University), Jessica Berman (University of Maryland, Baltimore Country), Ruben Borg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Mikita Brottman (Maryland Institute College of Art), Jessica Burstein (University of Washington), Andre Carrington (University of California, Riverside), Tim Dean (University of Illinois), Maria DiBattista (Princeton University), Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Temple University), Jonathan Eburne (Pennsylvania State University), Hoda El Shakry (University of Chicago), Alan Golding (University of Louisville), Matt Hart (Columbia University), Eric Hayot (Pennsylvania State University), Scott Herring (Yale University), Aaron Jaffe (Florida State University), Eric Keenaghan (The University at Albany – SUNY), Linda Kinnahan (Duquesne University), Karen Lawrence (The Huntington Library), Michael Leong (California Institute of the Arts), Charles Lock (University of Copenhagen), Marina MacKay (Oxford University), Gina MacKenzie (Holy Family University), Bernard McKenna (University of Delaware), Peter Lancelot Mallios (University of Maryland), Ira B. Nadel (University of British Columbia), Aldon Nielsen (Pennsylvania State University), Patrick Pritchett (University of Connecticut), Richard Purcell (Carnegie Mellon University), Ralph Rodriguez (Brown University), Urmila Seshagiri (University of Tennessee), Alan Singer (Temple University), David Sterritt (Maryland Institute College of Art), and Shane Vogel (Yale University). Subscribe: Subscription rates are: Individual Print/$60.50 US a year; Individual Electronic/$52.50 US a year; Individual Print and Electronic/$66.55 US a year. Foreign orders add: $18 US to Canada, Mexico, and overseas surface; $34 for overseas airmail. Shipping charges apply to both Print/Print and Electronic subscriptions. To order, go to http://www.jstor.org/r/iupress. For institutional subscription rates, go to www.jstor.org/page/journal/jmodelite/about.html. Individual issues are available for purchase. Authors may purchase single issues of the number in which their essay appears at a 40% discount. Call IU Press customer service at 812.855.8818 for information and to order. Advertise: To advertise your book, event or journal in JML, go to https://iupress.org/meet/journal-advertising/. Discounts offered for multiple placements.

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JML is a leading scholarly serial in modernist, postmodernist and contemporary studies of literature and culture. It publishes the latest scholarship on modernism, and traces the continuing effects of modernist thought on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary and cultural production. Submit: JML seeks scholarly studies of literature, as well as related arts and cultural artifacts, from 1900 to the present. Submissions should conform to MLA 8th edition style for documentation and manuscript formatting, and should include a 100-150 word abstract and 3-5 keywords. Submissions must be under 9,000 words for the entire submission package, including the abstract, notes and works cited. No simultaneous submissions or previously published material. We respond within three months on average. Submit manuscripts as a Word or RTF attachment to managing editor Laurel Garver at [email protected]. We accept only electronic submissions. Book reviews are by assignment only. Interested writers should send a query letter stating their areas of expertise, along with a writing sample (.doc or .rtf attachment) to managing editor Laurel Garver at [email protected]. JML is published quarterly in January, April, July and October by Indiana University Press. Issues run 150-200 pages and contain seven to eleven scholarly essays and one to six book reviews. Print and/or electronic subscriptions are available to individuals and institutions. JML was founded in 1970 by Maurice Beebe of Temple University, who served as editor-in-chief until his death in 1986. His successor Morton P. Levitt served as editor until 2003. In 2000, the journal was purchased by Indiana University Press. It is now overseen by six co-editors: Robert L. Caserio (Pennsylvania State University), Paula Marantz Cohen (Drexel University), Janet Lyon (Pennsylvania State University), Daniel O’Hara (Temple University), Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania), and Jennifer Yusin (Drexel University). JML’s advisory editors are Kevin Bell (Penn State University), Jessica Berman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Ruben Borg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Sheldon Brivic (Temple University), Mikita Brottman (Maryland Institute College of Art), Jessica Burstein (University of Washington), André Carrington (Drexel University), Tim Dean (University of Illinois), Maria DiBattista (Princeton University), Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Temple University), Jonathan Eburne (Penn State University), Hoda El Shakry (Penn State University), Alan Golding (University of Louisville), Matt Hart (Columbia University), Eric Hayot (Penn State University), Scott Herring (Indiana University), Caren Irr (Brandeis University), Aaron Jaffe (Florida State University), Eric Keenaghan (SUNY – Albany), Linda Kinnahan (Duquesne University), Karen Lawrence (The Huntington Library), Charles Lock (University of Copenhagen), Michael Leong (SUNY – Albany), Joshua Lukin (Temple University), Marina MacKay (Oxford University), Gina MacKenzie (Holy Family University), Peter Lancelot Mallios (University of Maryland), Hortensia Morrell (Temple University), Aldon Nielsen (Penn State University), Patrick Pritchett (Hunan Normal University), Richard Purcell (Carnegie Mellon University), Ralph Rodriguez (Brown University), Urmila Seshagiri (University of Tennessee), Alan Singer (Temple University), Ramon Soto-Crespo (University of Illinois), David Sterritt (Maryland Institute College of Art), Robert T. Tally, Jr. (Texas State University), and Shane Vogel (Indiana University). Subscribe: Subscription rates are: Individual Print/$55.00 US a year; Individual Electronic/$52.50 US a year; Individual Print and Electronic/$60.50 US a year. Foreign orders add: $18 US to Canada, Mexico, and overseas surface; $34 for overseas airmail. Shipping charges apply to both Print/Print and Electronic subscriptions. To order, go to http://purchase.jstor.org/products.php?issn=0022281X. For institutional subscription rates, go to www.jstor.org/page/journal/jmodelite/about.html. Individual issues are available for purchase. Authors may purchase single issues of the number in which their essay appears at a 40% discount. Call IU Press customer service at 812.855.8818 for information and to order. Advertise: To advertise your book, event or journal in JML, go to www.iupress.indiana.edu/pages.php?pID=12&CDpath=4 for more information, or contact Jacklyn Lord, marketing manager, at [email protected]. Discounts offered for multiple placements.