{{Short description|Academic journal}} {{other uses}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox journal | title = ELH | cover = English literary history.gif | editor = Jeanne-Marie Jackson | formernames = | discipline = Literature | abbreviation = ELH | frequency = Quarterly | website = http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/english_literary_history/ | publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press | link1 = https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/ | link1-name = Online access | country = United States | history = 1934-present | ISSN = 0013-8304 | OCLC = 1567158 | eISSN = 1080-6547 | JSTOR = 00138304 | LCCN = 35012114 }} '''''ELH''''' ('''''English Literary History''''') is an academic journal established in 1934 at Johns Hopkins University, devoted to the study of major works in the English language, particularly British literature. It covers developments in literature through historical, critical, and theoretical methods. The current senior editor is Jeanne-Marie Jackson.<ref name="ELH JHU">{{cite web|title=ELH: English Literary History|website=Hopkins Press|url=https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/elh|access-date=30 March 2025}}</ref>
==Overview== ''ELH'' self-describes as{{blockquote|welcom[ing] sophisticated, groundbreaking essays on all literatures in English and on cultural forms and contexts related to those literatures. Continuing a tradition that stretches back to 1934, the journal's editors balance historical, critical, and theoretical concerns in seeking to publish the very best work on English-language writing from its beginnings to the present day.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/elh|title=ELH {{!}} JHU Press|website=www.press.jhu.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-11-05}}</ref>}}Submissions are received year-round. Authors are asked that manuscripts submitted for review be "in Word (.doc or .docx) format," "in accordance with ''The Chicago Manual of Style'', 16th ed.," and "double-spaced, with one-inch margins, in Times New Roman, 12 pt. font." The word count for manuscripts is between 8,000 and 12,000 words, including endnotes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/elh/author-guidelines|title=Author Guidelines|language=en|access-date=2020-06-10}}</ref>
Most recent issue (Summer 2020) Table of Contents:<ref>{{cite web |title=Summer 2020 (87.2) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/42438/print |website=ELH |access-date=22 June 2020}}</ref> * From the English Institute— ** An "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757350 Introduction to the English Institute Essays on 'Truth-Telling']" by Sangeeta Ray and Ian Balfour ** Zahid R. Chaudhary on "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757351 The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts]" ** Jennifer Doyle on "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757341 Alethurgy's Shadows: Truth-Telling Between Women in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels]" ** David Kurnick on "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757342 A Few Lies: Queer Theory and Our Method Melodramas]" ** Joanna Picciotto on "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757343 Truth-Telling, Mass Media, and The Poet's Office]" * Katherine Walker on "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757344 Clowns and Demonic Learning in Doctor Faustus]" * Ross Lerner on "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757345 The Astonied Body in ''Paradise Lost'']" * Andrew Lawson on "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757346 Becoming Bourgeois: Benjamin Franklin's Account of the Self]" * David A. P. Womble on "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757347 What Climate Did to Consent, 1748–1818]" * Lily Gurton-Wachter on "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757348 Blake's "Little Black Thing": Happiness and Injury in the Age of Slavery]" and * Peter Howarth on "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757349 Marianne Moore's Performances]"
Previous editors-in-chief include Jonathan Kramnick (Yale University), Frances Ferguson (University of Chicago), Ronald Paulson (Johns Hopkins University). The current editorial board is listed online.<ref name="ELH JHU"></ref>
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== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/english_literary_history/}} *[https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/ ELH] at Project MUSE
Category:Literary magazines published in the United States Category:Johns Hopkins University Press academic journals Category:English-language journals Category:Academic journals established in 1934 Category:Quarterly journals
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