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Use when targeting New Literary History or deciding whether an essay on the theory, history, and method of literary study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's theory-of-literature fit, the conceptual-question bar, methodological-reflexivity expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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# New Literary History (new-literary-history)

## Journal positioning

New Literary History, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, is devoted to theory
and interpretation — to questions about the nature, method, and history of literary study
rather than to readings for their own sake. Its defining expectation is an essay that
**asks a genuine theoretical or methodological question**: what literature is, how it
means, why we read it as we do, how categories like period, genre, value, or
interpretation are constituted and might be rethought. A close reading without a
conceptual question behind it, or a survey of a critical school, is a poor fit; the
journal wants reflection that reorients how the discipline thinks. 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 New Literary History author instructions.
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