American Literature, Post-1865: Databases, Journals, and Articles

Features articles dealing with American literature, writers and poets, book reviews and lists of recently published books dealing with literary criticism.

The term “American” is an ever-changing, ever-expanding word, one that defies boundaries and disciplines, and American Quarterly reflects the evolving landscape of American studies. Within the journal’s pages, you’ll find interdisciplinary scholarship aimed at motivating discussion and embracing fresh ideas in the field. American Quarterly not only publishes traditional scholarship, but it welcomes innovative approaches to critical writing through forums, event and book reviews, and “Currents” – timely pieces about topics of current importance to the world of American studies.

Edith Wharton Review is a peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed, scholarly journal publishing scholarship on Edith Wharton, Wharton in the text of other authors, and Wharton in relation to other writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its audience is the community of scholars and readers dedicated to the understanding of Edith Wharton’s work and its role in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century culture.

The Faulkner Journal, a peer-reviewed forum for the scholarly study of William Faulkner's life and works, is published by the University of Central Florida. The journal publishes general issues twice a year and also publishes special double issues on topics such as Faulkner and Feminisms, Faulkner the Reiver, and Faulkner and Latin America. The Faulkner Journal has on its advisory board distinguished scholars from around the country and international scholars as well.

Leviathan features a bounty of scholarly articles, notes, reviews, and creative writing of a critical, theoretical, cultural, or historical nature on the impressive body of work of American novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891). Published under the aegis of The Melville Society--one of the oldest single-author societies in the United States--Leviathan includes a regular feature, "Extracts," for sharing Melville Society transactions and programs as well as abstracts of papers delivered at its annual MLA and ALA panels. Leviathan also regularly publishes special issues, book reviews, interviews, and poems.

Studies in American Fiction publishes reviews and articles on a wide temporal range in American fiction: from neglected and rediscovered early U.S. writers (Susanna Rowson, Leonora Sansay, James Hall) to the emergent authors of the present day (Katherine Dunn, Ana Menéndez, Monique Truong, Toni Morrison). Expect its refereed articles to feature not only major canonical works by Charles Brockden Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, and Thomas Pynchon, but scholarly analyses of contemporary Chicano literature and Harlem Renaissance fiction. Engendering conversations about forms of writing that do not succumb to traditional genres, SAF interrogates and redraws both generic and geographic boundaries. SAF is the only journal encompassing American literature from the North American colonial past to the United States' globalized present.

African American Review (AAR) is a scholarly aggregation of insightful essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews. Published quarterly, AAR has featured renowned writers and cultural critics including Trudier Harris, Arnold Rampersad, Hortense Spillers, Amiri Baraka, Cyrus Cassells, Rita Dove, Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, and Ishmael Reed. The official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, AAR fosters a vigorous conversation among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Between 1991 and 2007 American Drama was published twice yearly by the American Drama Institute. It was funded by the Helen Weinberger Center for the Study of Drama and Playwriting and by the College of Arts and Sciences, both at the University of Cincinnati.

American Drama solicited scholarly studies of dramatic literature from colonial to contemporary times, which feature critical examination of trends and discussions of diversity in scripts for stage, film, radio, and television; the careers of dramatists; and various theories of the development of drama. It welcomes submissions from the practitioners of every methodology, be it traditional historicist, new historicist, feminist, Marxist, structuralist, semiotic, or any other.

American Drama was the journal dedicated to increasing diversity and to reconsidering the history and development of American Drama.

Studies in American Naturalism publishes critical essays, documents, notes, bibliographies, and reviews concerning American literary naturalism, broadly conceived. Published twice each year by the International Theodore Dreiser Society and The University of Nebraska Press, the journal seeks contributions illuminating the texts and contexts of naturalism across all genres from its nineteenth-century origins to its twentieth- and twenty-first century transformations.

Devoted to the works of Tennessee Williams. Includes scholarship on Williams' plays, fiction, and poems and on the film adaptations of his works.

Published by The University of Southern Mississippi since 1962, The Southern Quarterly is an internationally-known scholarly journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Southern arts and culture.

SoQ defines "the arts" broadly, including literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance, theatre, film, and popular culture. We also publish studies of Southern culture informed by such disciplines as history, folklore, anthropology, political science, and geography. SoQ defines "The South" as anything south of the Mason Dixon Line, including the Caribbean, to the larger Global South. SoQ issues and features devoted to individual southern artists include: Eudora Welty, Kate Chopin, Harry Crews, Erskine Caldwell, Elvis Presley, Lee Smith, Tennessee Williams, Conrad Aiken, and Walker Percy. An upcoming issue will be devoted to Natasha Trethewey.

In addition to articles that explore what the South meant, or means, today, regular features include previously unpublished archival documents, original poetry, review essays, and portfolios of original artwork or photography.The interviews that we regularly publish are a hallmark of our journal. These have included conversations with Ernest J. Gaines, Robert Morgan, Fred Chappell, Lewis Nordan, Beth Henley, and Dr. Chris Chapman on celebrated African American artist Loïs Mailou Jones.

The Southern Literary Journal, a peer-reviewed journal of the University of New Carolina Department of English and Comparative Literature is published by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal publishes articles on the literature and culture of the American South and especially encourages global and hemispheric comparative scholarship linking the American South and its literatures and cultures to other Souths. SLJ defines “literature” broadly to include digital forms, music, film, and other genres. From time to time, the journal publishes special issues on such topics as memory and history, poetry, and Gulf Souths; and at times, the editors ask southern studies specialists in other disciplines to provide essays we think may be useful for literary scholars in our fields. Our review essays of scholarly books on southern literature and culture are a vital part of the journal’s contribution to the field.