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Use when targeting Modern Language Quarterly (MLQ) or deciding whether a literary-history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's literary-history fit, the historically grounded argument bar, periodization and change-over-time expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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# Modern Language Quarterly (modern-language-quarterly)

## Journal positioning

Modern Language Quarterly, published by Duke University Press, is a journal of literary
history — it asks how literature changes over time and how those changes are best
understood. Its defining expectation is a **historically grounded argument about literary
change**: the emergence or transformation of a genre, form, mode, period, or tradition,
demonstrated through evidence and situated in the history of the discipline's debates
about periodization and historical method. A purely formalist reading detached from
historical change, or a theory-application piece indifferent to literary history, is a
poor fit. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** aid. It does not replace
the journal's current submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live MLQ
author instructions.
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