Huntington Library Quarterly

Edited by Huntington Library

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Journal Information

  • ISSN: 0018-7895
  • eISSN: 1544-399X
  • Frequency: Quarterly

Description

The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400–1800). Its content reflects an early modern world that was connected and cosmopolitan, with diverse communities and cultures increasingly linked by the circulation of people, ideas, social practices, and material objects in ways that transcend disciplinary and geographic boundaries. We invite submissions that draw on the sources, methods, and theoretical frameworks of literature, art, history, science, medicine, material culture, music, performance, and critical cultural studies, with a preference for scholarship that is broadly legible across disciplines.

HLQ’s historical focus on Britain and its American colonies has been dramatically expanded to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, as well as their intersections with Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds.

HLQ publishes four types of essays:

  1. Research Articles (standard monographic essays based on original research and interpretation, usually 8,000–12,000 words, including notes)
  2. Sources (short critical editions of previously unpublished textual or visual sources, translated into English when applicable, with a full critical apparatus and interpretive intervention)
  3. Review Essays (state-of-the-field and methodological essays, usually 3,000–5,000 words, commissioned or submitted)
  4. Early/Modern Connections (interventions that explicitly link original early modern research to public humanities and the public interest)

We also publish special issues—similar to edited book volumes—in which a group of essays connected by a common theme, topic, or approach is submitted collectively, with an introduction, by an editor or editors. If the issue is accepted for publication, the submitting editors become guest co-editors of the issue.

HLQ is published by The Huntington, a world-leading research center with vast early modern holdings in its Library, Art, and Botanical divisions. Although the journal welcomes submissions that draw directly on these resources, the location of research or source material has no influence on publication decisions.

HLQ Call for Submissions:

The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) invites article submissions for two featured issues that will mark the journal’s new direction. Submissions received before 15 January 2025 will be evaluated for the first of these issues, to be published in September 2025. Submissions received before 15 March 2025 will be evaluated for the second of these issues, to be published in December 2025.

Call for Submissions: Early/Modern Connections

The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) invites submissions for a new section of the journal called Early/Modern Connections. This section will feature peer-reviewed essays that link early modern research to public humanities and the public interest. Although examples will vary widely, all successful submissions will illustrate how previously unpublished research in early modern sources has informed, or continues to inform, a public-facing project. Work benefiting historically underserved or marginalized communities is of particular interest. Essay length will vary significantly by project but will generally not exceed 5,000 words.

We anticipate submissions highlighting smaller-scale individual work as well as collaborations between scholars and performers, educators, activists, writers, artists, and public-serving institutions. We also anticipate the unanticipated and encourage anyone interested in submitting an Early/Modern Connections piece to contact the journal’s editor, Brett Rushforth.

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