Studies in the Novel
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Since 1969, Studies in the Novel has published incisive scholarship on the novel across all periods, genres, and interpretive approaches. This quarterly peer-reviewed journal is published by Johns Hopkins University Press for the University of North Texas.
Featuring new scholarship on Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Charles Dickens and George Lamming, and Briohny Doyle, plus book reviews of recent releases in literary criticism, the Summer 2026 issue of Studies in the Novel is out now! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56849
The spring issue of Studies in the Novel features new scholarship on Charlotte Brontë, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Faulkner, Bernard Malamud, and Stefan Brijs, plus book reviews of recent releases in literary criticism. Out now! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56438
Call for Papers: "Forms of the Nation: Borders and Migration in the Contemporary Novel" (Winter 2027). This special issue is guest edited by Dr. Gabriele Lazzari (Univ. of Surrey) and Dr. Peter Ely (Northeastern Univ. London). Visit our website for the CFP: www.studiesinthenovel.org/submit/call-...
Announcing our winter special issue, out now: "Disease and Disability in the Novel." Thanks to Matthew L. Reznicek and Lydia R. Cooper for their skilled guest editing and to all the excellent contributors! You can find this collection on Project MUSE here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
New podcast! Tobias Wilson-Bates interviews Nathan K. Hensley, author of "Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse," a study of “how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action.”
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Action without Hope
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The summer issue of Studies in the Novel features new scholarship on Michel Maxwell Philip, Wilkie Collins, Virginia Woolf, Louise Erdrich, and Tommy Orange, plus book reviews of recent releases in literary criticism. Out now! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54775
The spring issue of Studies in the Novel features new scholarship on Jane Austen and Amitav Ghosh; John Fowles and Oscar Wilde; Andrei Bely; Cormac McCarthy; Dana Spiotta; and Monica Brashears, Percival Everett, and Jason Mott. Out now! muse.jhu.edu/journal/395
Call for Papers for a Special Issue: "The Marriage Plot, 'Post'-Marriage" (Winter 2026), guest edited by Lana L. Dalley, Shannon Draucker, and Doreen Thierauf. Visit our website for the CFP: www.studiesinthenovel.org/submit/call-....
Announcing our winter special issue: "Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel." 12 short essays engage with truisms in novel studies. Thanks to Sarah Allison & Megan Ward (@sarahdallison.bsky.social, @megaplex.bsky.social) for guest editing & to all the contributors!
