Submit Essays to These Victorian Journals
Writing research papers can be difficult enough for the average graduate student, but publishing them can be even more challenging! Finding out which journals focus on your area of study and when they publish (bi-annually, tri-annually, etc) is the first of many steps to figuring out where and how you should submit your finished work. In order to facillate this process, one of our members has compiled and categorized this list of journals and clickable links (which we will routinely update) so that you can begin researching and hopefully get a few articles out there to the wider Victorian public!
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Major Peer-Review Victorian Literature Journals:
Specialization: General
Victorian Studies is devoted to the study of British culture of the Victorian age. It regularly includes interdisciplinary articles on comparative literature, social and political history, and the histories of education, philosophy, fine arts, economics, law, and science, as well as review essays, and an extensive book review section. Victorian Studies is the official publication of the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). Link: http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=victorianstudies
Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature. Now in its 60th year, THE VICTORIAN NEWSLETTER is marked by one more alteration: a name change. Beginning with the Spring 2011 issue, #119, our new name is Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature. The name reflects the growth of the publication from its early newsletter format into a professional scholarly journal that continues to respond to developmental shifts in the discipline of Victorian studies. VCL welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to Victorian literature and culture and, like its progenitor, depends upon the contributions of students and scholars to maintain its long scholarly excellence and professional integrity. Link: http://www.wku.edu/victorian/
Victorian Literature and Culture encourages high quality original work concerned with all areas of Victorian literature and culture, including music and the fine arts. The journal presents work at the cutting edge of current research, including exciting new studies in untouched subjects or new methodologies. Contributions are welcomed from internationally established scholars as well as younger members of the profession. Editors' Topics currently being developed: "Victorian India," edited by Mary Ellis Gibson and "The Nineteenth-Century Pacific Rim," edited by Tamara S. Wagner. Review essays form a central part of the journal, and offer an authoritative view of important subjects together with a list of relevant works that serves as an up-to-date bibliography. The "Works in Progress" section allows the communication of parts of major works well in advance of their final publication. The "Special Effects" section allows publication of primary materials either previously unavailable or unknown to most readers. Link: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=vlc
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century is an open-access, scholarly, refereed web journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century. Link: http://19.bbk.ac.uk/index.php/19
Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN) is an International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature. The journal, which began publication as Romanticism on the Net in February 1996, is published four times a year. It expanded its scope in August 2007 to include Victorian literature. Link: http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens is a publication affiliated with the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France, which is committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on British Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and cultural history. It is a double-blind, peer-reviewed bi-annual journal which accepts year-round submissions, in French or in English, for both its general and special issues, as well as book reviews. Link: https://cve.revues.org/?lang=en
Specialization: By Genre:
Victorian Poetry furthers the aesthetic study of the poetry of the Victorian Period in Britain by publishing articles from a broad range of theoretical and critical angles, including but not confined to new historicism, feminism, and social and cultural issues. The journal has expanded its purview from the major figures of Victorian England (Tennyson, Browning, the Rossettis, etc.) to a wider compass of poets of all classes and gender identifications in nineteenth-century Britain and the Commonwealth. Link: http://wvupressonline.com/journals/victorian_poetry
Nineteenth-Century Prose is a scholarly journal sponsored by Faith University, Istanbul, and San Diego State University, California. The journal accepts articles, reviews, and bibliographies on nineteenth-century British, American, and Continental nonfiction prose and cultural studies. Submissions should be sent via e-mail attachment after an initial e-mail contact with the editor (barrytharaud@yahoo.com). All text, including notes and indented quotes, should be in MS Word and doubled spaced throughout. Notes should be on a separate file, not generated automatically through MS Word. All submissions should be accompanied by a two-or three- sentence vita for the Contributors page, and articles should be accompanied by a one-paragraph abstract. Link: http://nineteenthcenturyprose.org/about/
Specialization: Women’s Studies and Gender Studies
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art, and culture. Link: http://www.ncgsjournal.com/
The Latchkey is an interdisciplinary online journal devoted to the concept of the New Woman. It covers the lives and writings of New Women authors and figures; the representation of the New Woman in literature, culture, theatre, art, and society; proto-feminism and early feminist journalism; and current innovative scholarship on the New Woman in the fin-de-siècle and modernist eras. While the term "New Woman" originated in England, the cultural phenomenon extended beyond Britain. We wish to explore its presence (or reasons for its absence) and influence in other countries and across disciplines, and aim at covering both canonical and non-canonical New Woman figures and aspects. Link: http://www.oscholars.com/Latchkey/style.htm
Specialization: Cultural Studies and Other Interdisciplinary Work
Journal of Victorian Culture Online is the online supplement to the Journal of Victorian Culture(JVC), which promotes the best work on all aspects of nineteenth-century society, culture, and the material world including: literature, art, performance, politics, science, medicine, technology, lived experience, and ideas. Concerned with the long nineteenth century, its legacies, and echoes in the present day, the journal encourages articles which interrogate periodization, historiography, and critical traditions. Link: http://myblogs.informa.com/jvc
Nineteenth-Century Contexts is committed to interdisciplinary recuperations of “new” nineteenth centuries and their relation to contemporary geopolitical developments. The journal challenges traditional modes of categorizing the nineteenth century by forging innovative contextualizations across a wide spectrum of nineteenth century experience and the critical disciplines that examine it. Articles not only integrate theories and methods of various fields of inquiry — art, history, musicology, anthropology, literary criticism, religious studies, social history, economics, popular culture studies, and the history of science, among others — but also test and open up the very limits of disciplinary boundaries. Scope of interest is not confined to any single regional or cultural area, and the relevance of the nineteenth centuries we read about to contemporary political flashpoints around the world remains a top priority. Interdisciplinary, international and innovative, Nineteenth-Century Contexts is leading debate about where the next nineteenth centuries will occur. Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gncc20#.VquGVxgrIy5
Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies welcomes submissions in all areas of Victorian studies. Our mandate is to publish the best original international research in this interdisciplinary field, as well as to provide critical reviews of new books in Victorian studies by experts from around the world. Finally, our regular Victorian Review forum provides a unique venue in which diverse scholarly voices may address a topic from multiple points of view. Link: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_review/
The Victorians Institute Journal is an award-winning, refereed scholarly journal that publishes articles, reviews, and newly edited texts of interest to scholars in nineteenth-century cultural studies. The VIJ Digital Annex, supported by NINES, serves as an online extension of each print issue of the journal (with separate content) and features book reviews, newly-edited rare archival materials, and full-length articles based on the best papers presented at the annual conference. Victorians Institute Journal is currently supported by the Department of English at Middle Tennessee State University, as well as the Department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee. Link: http://victorian.utk.edu/
Victorian Studies is devoted to the study of British culture of the Victorian age. It regularly includes interdisciplinary articles on comparative literature, social and political history, and the histories of education, philosophy, fine arts, economics, law, and science, as well as review essays, and an extensive book review section. Victorian Studies is the official publication of the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). Link: http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=victorianstudies
Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature. Now in its 60th year, THE VICTORIAN NEWSLETTER is marked by one more alteration: a name change. Beginning with the Spring 2011 issue, #119, our new name is Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature. The name reflects the growth of the publication from its early newsletter format into a professional scholarly journal that continues to respond to developmental shifts in the discipline of Victorian studies. VCL welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to Victorian literature and culture and, like its progenitor, depends upon the contributions of students and scholars to maintain its long scholarly excellence and professional integrity. Link: http://www.wku.edu/victorian/
Victorian Literature and Culture encourages high quality original work concerned with all areas of Victorian literature and culture, including music and the fine arts. The journal presents work at the cutting edge of current research, including exciting new studies in untouched subjects or new methodologies. Contributions are welcomed from internationally established scholars as well as younger members of the profession. Editors' Topics currently being developed: "Victorian India," edited by Mary Ellis Gibson and "The Nineteenth-Century Pacific Rim," edited by Tamara S. Wagner. Review essays form a central part of the journal, and offer an authoritative view of important subjects together with a list of relevant works that serves as an up-to-date bibliography. The Works in Progress section allows the communication of parts of major works well in advance of their final publication. The Special Effects section allows publication of primary materials either previously unavailable or unknown to most readers. Link: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=vlc
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century is an open-access, scholarly, refereed web journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century. Link: http://19.bbk.ac.uk/index.php/19
Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN) is an International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature. The journal, which began publication as Romanticism on the Net in February 1996, is published four times a year. It expanded its scope in August 2007 to include Victorian literature. Link: http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens is a publication affiliated with the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France, which is committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on British Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and cultural history. It is a double-blind, peer-reviewed bi-annual journal which accepts year-round submissions, in French or in English, for both its general and special issues, as well as book reviews. Link: https://cve.revues.org/?lang=en
Specialization: Brontë Studies
Brontë Studies welcomes original submissions that match the aims and scope of the journal on the understanding that their contents have not previously been published, or are not being concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be peer reviewed. It is a condition of publication that on acceptance of the article by the journal Editor that copyright must be assigned to The Brontë Society. Link: http://www.maneyonline.com/ifa/bst
Specialization: Fin-de-Siècle and Edwardian Writers
English Literature in Transition publishes articles on fiction, poetry, drama, or subjects of cultural interest in the 1880–1920 period of British literature. Submissions are typically 20–30 double-spaced pages. While we publish reviews of books about Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and W. B. Yeats, we do not publish articles on such major figures unless the discussion is linked to less-prominent authors of the era. Dissertation or thesis chapters must be revised as articles before we will consider them for publication. We publish book reviews the editor has solicited. Link: http://www.eltpress.org/thejournal.html
Specialization: Charles Dickens
Dickens Quarterly. Founded in 1970 as an organization to encourage and support research and writing on Charles Dickens. Dickens Quarterly, a scholarly journal and organ of the Dickens Society, is published in March, June, September and December.
The Dickensian. The Fellowship's journal, The Dickensian, founded in 1905, publishes a wide range of articles on the life and work of Charles Dickens, contributed by scholars from around the world. It also publishes edited and annotated transcriptions of newly discovered Dickens letters. In addition to its articles, each issue carries reviews of books, plays, films and TV productions, together with reports of Fellowship activities and other Dickens-related news. The Dickensian is edited by Professor Malcolm Andrews of the University of Kent; and the Associate Editor is Dr Tony Williams.
Specialization: Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Hopkins Quarterly is an independent peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles, notes, documents, bibliographies, and reviews on all aspects of the lives, works and thought of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., and his circle: Robert Bridges, R.W.Dixon, and Coventry Patmore. The Hopkins Quarterly is indexed or abstracted in MLA International Bibliography, MHRA Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, The Year’s Work in English Studies, American Humanities Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Literary Criticism Register, Annual Bibliography of Victorian Studies, and Abstracts of English Studies.
Specialization: George Eliot
George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies publishes scholarly communication about the life and literature surrounding the Victorians George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), the famous author and translator, and her life partner, the noted English philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes. Since its inception more than thirty years ago, George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies seeks to provide a forum for those interested and actively engaged in working with either George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, or the relationship between them and their circle. Currently the journal publishes two issues per year.
Specialization: John Ruskin
The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today (ISSN 2049-3215) invites contributors to submit scholarly papers (8,000-10,000 or 3,500-4000 words), ideas for book reviews, exhibition reviews, news and events, titles of publications and projects in progress, and creative work and abstracts related to John Ruskin and related nineteenth century scholarship. Scholarly papers should be submitted at least six to eight months in advance to allow for the refereeing and revisions process. Please email submissions directly to the editors at theeighthlamp@gmail.com.
Specialization: Oscar Wilde
The Wildean publishes studies of the life, works and times of Oscar Wilde and his circle. The aim is to print material which will interest Wilde specialists and also be accessible to general readers. Full-length articles, reviews, short items and correspondence are all welcome. In addition to the publication of articles of scholarly interest, including those incorporating the results of new research, works about Wilde published in English are reviewed as soon after publication as possible. Concision and clarity are sought. Articles of between 2,000 and 4,000 words are particularly favoured. Jargon should be avoided, and academic tone and analytical style moderated. Articles should hold the attention of the general reader. Contact Donald Mead, Editor at donmead@wildean.demon.co.uk.
