SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

Manuscripts submitted to SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 should be submitted online at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sel

The editorial office, editors, and specialist reviewers will use the system for communication about submissions, reports, revisions, and decisions. The online process allows us to track submission and review processes more efficiently and to streamline workflow.

Please log on the Manuscript Central website. If you are a new user, you will first need to create an account to log onto the site. After logging on, use the Author Center to guide you through the steps to upload your manuscript and any additional files. For questions and a user guide, please click the “Get Help Now” button at the top right of every screen. Additional help is available through the Manuscript Central customer support team at 1-434-964-4100 or 1-888-503-1050.

In situations where electronic submission is difficult or unavailable, the editors will accept submissions via regular mail. Please contact the SEL office at 713-348-4697 or sel@rice.edu for specific guidelines.

Submission Guidelines

SEL invites historical and critical essays of moderate length (ca. 7,000 words not to exceed 8,000 words including endnotes) that contribute significantly to the understanding of English literature, 1500–1900. Typescripts should be double-spaced throughout, including inset quotations and endnotes, and should be prepared in conformity with The Chicago Manual of Style. 17th Edition. We prefer Times New Roman 12 pt. font.

We will not consider articles being simultaneously submitted elsewhere, nor will we print essays to appear in a book published within a year of scheduled publication by SEL. We encourage authors to submit a short cover letter and an abstract of 100 words or fewer with the article in the Manuscript Central system. The Author Center will prompt you to upload files for a cover letter, an abstract, or image files.

Receipt of manuscripts will be acknowledged by email. Editorial decisions often take a minimum of four months.

SEL is excited to announce our Living Discourse Initiative, which scales our in three features: The Interview, The Exchange, and The Roundtable. We invite proposals of 300 to 500 words for each of the features.

The Interview introduces professionals with educational training in the humanities and careers outside or adjacent to the professoriate. The Exchange features two senior scholars, whose work overlaps in compelling ways, in an extended, informal exchange of ideas about their own scholarship, timely concerns, and the study of literature broadly. The conversation could occur as a series of exchanged emails or Zoom conversation transcripts. The Roundtable includes 4–6 brief position papers (approx. 1,000–1,500 words) focused on pressing issues in the fields of literary criticism relevant to SEL. Each essay will be exchanged, read, and responded to by all participants in The Roundtable; original position papers and responses will then be published together in SEL.

Queries and proposals may be directed to the editors at sel@rice.edu.

For additional information, please feel to contact:

Kelly McKisson
Managing Editor
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
Rice University MS-46
407 Fondren Library
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
Tel: (713) 348-4697
www.sel.rice.edu

The Hopkins Press Journals Ethics and Malpractice Statement can be found at the ethics-and-malpractice page.

Peer Review Policy

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 invites historical and critical essays of moderate length (ca. 7,000 words not to exceed 8,000 words including endnotes) that contribute significantly to the understanding of English literature, 1500–1900. Submissions should be be prepared without identifying information, in conformity with the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edn., and double spaced throughout, including inset quotations and endnotes. We will not consider articles being simultaneously submitted elsewhere, nor will we print essays to appear in a book published within a year of scheduled publication by SEL.

All manuscripts submitted to SEL should be submitted online at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sel. The editorial office, editors, and specialist reviewers will use the system for communication about submissions, reports, revisions, and decisions. The online process allows us to track submission and review processes more efficiently and to streamline workflow. Submissions are vetted both in-house and through a double-anonymized review process. Editorial decisions often take four months. There is no deadline for revisions, which will undergo further review, and articles are accepted on a rolling basis.

For more information, please visit our website at www.sel.rice.edu.

Publisher and Executive Editor

Amy Huseby

Editor Emeritus

Robert L. Patten

Managing Editor

Kelly McKisson

Diana Hobby Editorial Fellows

Zia Forrai
Heather King
Maddie Lacy
Kate Louthain
V Lundquist
Rowan Thando Morar
Taylin Nelson
Megan Oakes
Brenda Tan

Undergraduate Fellow

Landry Wood 

Editorial Board

Paula Backscheider, Auburn University  
Ros Ballaster, Mansfield College, Oxford University  
Douglas S. Bruster, University of Texas at Austin  
Mattie Burkert, University of Oregon
Joseph Campana, Rice University
Urvashi Chakravarty, University of Toronto
Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Queen's University
Patrick Cheney, Pennsylvania State University  
Peter de Bolla, King's College, Cambridge University  
Heather Dubrow, Fordham University  
Katherine Eggert, University of Colorado Boulder  
Andrew Elfenbein, University of Minnesota  
Sarah Ellenzweig, Rice University
Angela Esterhammer, University of Toronto  
Mary Favret, Johns Hopkins University  
Kate Flint, University of Southern California  
Dustin Friedman, American University
Barbara Fuchs,  University of California, Los Angeles  
Achsah Guibbory, Barnard College  
Emily Harrington, University of Colorado, Boulder
Nathan K. Hensley, Georgetown University
Coppélia Kahn, Brown University  
William J. Kennedy, Cornell University  
Ula Lukszo Klein, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh 
David Loewenstein, Pennsylvania State University​  
Devoney Looser, Arizona State University  
Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California-Irvine  
Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College  
Peter J. Manning, State University of New York at Stony Brook  
Leah S. Marcus, Vanderbilt University  
Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia  
Michael McKeon, Rutgers State University of New Jersey  
Felicity A. Nussbaum, University of California, Los Angeles  
Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph  
Benjamin Parris, Rice University
Curtis Perry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
Adela Pinch, University of Michigan  
Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College  
Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario  
Allen Reddick, University of Zurich  
Alexander Regier, Rice University
Debora K. Shuger, University of California, Los Angeles​  
Meredith Skura, Rice University  
Gordon Teskey, Harvard University  
Herbert F. Tucker, Univeristy of Virginia  
Susan Wolfson, Princeton University

SEL only reviews books in commissioned omnibus reviews, included in each issue.

Send books for review to:

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
Rice University MS-46
Fondren Library
6100 Main Street
Houston TX 77005-1827

Please send book review copies to the address above. Review copies received by the Johns Hopkins University Press office will be discarded.

Abstracting & Indexing Databases

• Clarivate Analytics
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  • Current Contents
  • Web of Science
• De Gruyter Saur
  • Dietrich's Index Philosophicus
  • IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
  • Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur
• EBSCOhost
  • Academic Search Alumni Edition, 1/1/1975-12/31/1998
  • Academic Search Complete, 1/1/1975-12/31/1998
  • Academic Search Elite, 1/1/1975-12/31/1998
  • Academic Search Premier, 1/1/1975-12/31/1998
  • Academic Search: Main Edition, 1/1/1985-12/31/1998
  • Biography Index: Past and Present (H.W. Wilson), vol.25, 1985-vol.49, no.4, 2009
  • Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson), Oct.1983-
  • Current Abstracts, 1/1/2000-
  • Historical Abstracts (Online), 1/1/1999-
  • Humanities Index (Online), 1983/10-
  • Humanities International Complete, 1/1/1975-12/31/1998
  • Humanities International Index, 1/1/1975-12/31/1998
  • Humanities Source, 1/1/1975-12/31/1998
  • Humanities Source Ultimate, 1/1/1975-12/31/1998
  • International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text, 1/1/1999-
  • Literary Reference Center, 1/1/1975-12/31/1998
  • Literary Reference Center Plus, 1/1/1975-12/31/1998
  • Literary Reference Center: Main Edition, 1/1/1984-12/31/1998
  • MainFile, 1/1/1985-12/31/1998
  • MAS Complete, 1/1/1985-12/31/1998
  • MAS High Search: Main Edition, 1/1/1985-12/31/1998
  • MAS Ultra - School Edition (Magazine Article Summaries), 1/1/1985-12/31/1998
  • MasterFILE Complete, 1/1/1984-12/31/1998
  • MasterFILE Elite, 1/1/1985-12/31/1998
  • MasterFILE Premier, 1/1/1984-12/31/1998
  • MasterFILE: Main Edition, 1/1/1985-12/31/1998
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, 1/1/1975-12/31/1998
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale)
  • Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
  • Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1983 (H.W. Wilson), 1965/03-1973/03
  • TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 1/1/1995-12/31/1998
• Elsevier BV
  • Scopus, 2002-
• Gale
  • Academic ASAP, 01/1987-
  • Book Review Index Plus
  • Gale Academic OneFile, 01/1987-
  • Gale Academic OneFile Select, 01/1987-
  • Gale General OneFile, 01/1987-
  • Gale in Context: College
  • Gale in Context: Elementary
  • Gale OneFile: High School Edition, 01/1987-
  • InfoTrac Custom, 1/1987-
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • Shakespeare Collection, 1/1987-
  • Student Resources in Context, 01/1987-
• Gale In Context: Canada, 01/1987-
• Gale in Context: High School
• OCLC
  • ArticleFirst, vol.30, no.1, 1990-vol.51, no.4, 2011
  • Electronic Collections Online, vol.39, no.1, 1999-vol.51, no.4, 2011
  • Humanities Index (Online), 1983/10-
  • Periodical Abstracts, v.29, n.1, 1989-v.50, n.2, 2010
• Personal Alert (E-mail)
• ProQuest
  • Art, Design & Architecture Collection, 01/01/1989-
  • Arts & Humanities Database, 01/01/1989-
  • Arts Premium Collection, 1/1/1989-
  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (Online), Selective
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • Periodicals Index Online
  • Professional ProQuest Central, 01/01/1989-
  • ProQuest 5000, 01/01/1989-
  • ProQuest Central, 01/01/1989-
  • Research Library, 01/01/1989-
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale)

Abstracting & Indexing Sources

• Abstracts of English Studies   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Academic Index   (Ceased)  (Print)
• MLA Abstracts of Articles in Scholarly Journals   (Ceased)  (Print)

Source: Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory.

0.2 (2022)
0.2 (Five-Year Impact Factor)
0.00051 (Eigenfactor™ Score)

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"SEL, a leading journal in its field, is indispensable reading for those interested in frontier scholarship and criticism on English literature."
-J. Hillis Miller
Department of English & Comparative Literature
University of California, Irvine

"Of the important journals in my field(s)--journals like ELR, ELH, RQ, Representations--I thinkSEL is the one most committed to soliciting and printing good work by younger scholars at the graduate student and untenured faculty levels."
-Harry Berger Jr.
Emeritus Professor of Literature
University of California

"Since my introduction to SEL as a graduate student I've remained a faithful (and grateful) reader. I know of no critical essays that have been of greater value to me in understanding the trajectory of literary studies than the ones in SEL devoted to a review of recent scholarship."
-James Shapiro
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University

". . . one of the few journals I consistently admire--and even read! Over these years of academic trends, it's kept its unique scholarly identity, becoming neither modish nor boring. The review essays alone are sensationally learned and helpful."
-Nina Auerbach
Department of English
University of Pennsylvania

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