Literary Imagination

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Please note that Volume 26.3 was the last issue of Literary Imagination published by Oxford University Press. Any accepted submission at this point will be published in the journal by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Preparation of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted as Word files, with references and notes formatted as footnotes rather than as bibliography or reference list. 

If you are submitting several poems, please submit each one separately.

Submit any halftone illustrations as .tif files at 300 d.p.i. 

Please provide a one- or two-sentence biography to appear in the "Notes on Contributors" section, and your contact information, including an e-mail address. 

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Alt text is applicable to all images, figures, illustrations, and photographs.  
Alt text is only accessible via e-reader and so it won’t appear as part of the typeset article. 

Abstracting & Indexing Databases

• Clarivate Analytics
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  • Current Contents
  • Web of Science
• EBSCOhost
  • Current Abstracts, 3/1/2003-
  • Humanities International Complete, 1/1/1999-
  • Humanities International Index, 1/1/1999-
  • Humanities Source, /1/1999-
  • Humanities Source Ultimate, 1/1/1999-
  • Humanities Source Ultimate, 1/1/1999-
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, 1/1/1999-
  • TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 3/1/2003-
• Elsevier BV
  • Scopus, 2009-
• Gale
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
• ProQuest
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)

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0.2 (2023)
0.1 (Five-Year Impact Factor)
0.00005 (Eigenfactor™ Score)

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Readers include:  Literary scholars, both academic and independent; teachers of literature in colleges, universities, and secondary schools; poets, novelists, playwrights, actors, and directors

Print circulation: 450

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