Eighteenth Century

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Emily Hodgson Anderson
Editor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Department of English
University of Southern California
3501 Trousdale Pkwy
Taper Hall of Humanities, 404
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354
ecti@usc.edu

Author Guide

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We are now using Scholastica for our online peer-review submission system. To submit an essay, log on to our administrative platform, at https://ecti.scholasticahq.com/for-authors. The manuscript should be no longer than 9,500 words (inclusive of notes) and blind, with all references to the author removed. Obviously unacceptable essays will be returned within two weeks; essays being seriously considered will be kept for three to six months. 

Inquiries about the production process for accepted articles should be addressed to Jennifer Frangos frangosj@umkc.edu. 

Books for review should be sent to:
Robert Markley
Editor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Department of English
208 South Wright Street
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
rmarkley@illinois.edu

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Editors

Ashley Lauren Cohen
University of Southern California

Jennifer Frangos
University of Missouri-Kansas City

Robert Markley
University of Illinois

Sharon Smith
South Dakota State University

Associate Editors

Devjani Roy
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Heather Heckman-McKenna
University of Missouri-Columbia

Editor Emeritus

Tita Chico
University of Maryland

Editorial Board

Ralph Bauer
University of Maryland

Katherine Binhammer
University of Alberta

Oliva Bloechl
University of Pittsburgh

Elizabeth Bohls
University of Oregon

Marshall Brown
University of Washington

Bruce Clarke
Texas Tech University

Lucinda Cole
University of Illinois

Lennard J. Davis
University of Illinois, Chicago

Thomas DiPiero
Southern Methodist University

George Haggerty
University of California, Riverside

Ruth Hill
Vanderbilt University

Suvir Kaul
University of Pennsylvania

Jonathan Lamb
Vanderbilt University

Donna Landry
University of Kent

Jean Marsden
University of Connecticut

Natania Meeker
University of Southern California

Tobias Menely
University of California, Davis

Erika Naginski
Harvard University

Manushag Powell
Purdue University

John Samson
Texas Tech University

Cristobal Silva
University of California, Los Angeles

Clifford Siskin
New York University

Laura Stevens
University of Tulsa

Kristina Straub
Carnegie Mellon University

Rajani Sudan
Southern Methodist University

Cynthia Wall
University of Virginia

Michael Yonan
University of California, Davis

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When Joel Weinsheimer and Jeff Smitten took over Studies in Burke and His Time in 1976 and rechristened the journal two years later as The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, the new editors noted that “since its inception . . . the journal has continually expanded its scope, growing from a concentration on Burke and politics to its present multidisciplinary breadth.”

The subsequent history of ECTI has indicated the commitment of new generations of editors—Bob Markley (1982-present), John Samson (1986-1990), Bruce Clarke (1988-1997), Joel Reed (1992-2001), Hans Turley (1997-2005), Tita Chico (2001-present), and Emily Hodgson Anderson (2019-present)—to an ongoing dialogue among various approaches to the eighteenth century: old and new historicisms, feminist theory, cultural studies, hermeneutics, and cultural materialism.

The essays published over the past two decades reflect a commitment to work that pushes readers to think anew in theoretically self-conscious terms, whether in topic or methodology. Contributors give voice to a range of cultural and national traditions, and represent not only a number of disciplines but testify to the significance of cross-, inter-, and multi-disciplinary work in twenty-first-century scholarship. While the term “theory” in our title comes from an earlier time, the so-called theory wars of the 1970s, the subtitle of the journal—Theory and Interpretation—signals a continuing commitment to theoretically informed rigor and variety, where the very terms of analysis are themselves objects of analysis.

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