Special issues
Browse all special issues from English Studies.
The Eighteenth-Century Frontispiece; Guest editor: Kwinten Van De Walle
Volume 104, Issue 7, 2023 pages 1139-1316
Irish Women Writers’ Collaborations and Networks, 1880-1940; Guest editors: Kathryn Laing, Sinéad Mooney, Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin, Anna Pilz, Whitney Standlee and Julie Anne Stevens
Volume 104, Issue 6, 2023 pages 843-1138
Trace: Embodied Approaches to the Novel in English; Guest Editor: Monika Class
Volume 104, Issue 4, 2023 pages 579-675
Kazuo Ishiguro and International Crisis; Guest editors: Sebastian Groes and Dominic Dean:
Volume 103, Issue 7, 2022 pages 1017-1134
Bookshelves, Social Media and Gaming
Volume 103, Issue 5, 2022 pages 653-751
Contemporary Fiction and Style
Volume 103, Issue 3, 2022 pages 381-511
England in 1721 – Literature and society at the beginning of Walpole’s long tenure
Volume 102, Issue 7, 2021 pages 885-968
A Feminist Renaissance in Early Medieval English Studies
Volume 101, Issue 1, 2020 pages 1-95
Walking Hand in Hand: Flannery O’Connor’s Artistic and Spiritual Companions
Volume 100, Issue 5, 2019 pages 505-590
Metamodernism
Volume 99, Issue 7, 2018 pages 719-792
Ecocriticism and Narrative Theory
Volume 99, Issue 4, 2018 pages 355-457
Tony Harrison: International Man of Letters
Volume 99, Issue 1, 2018 pages 1-91
Rhetoric, Emotion and the Early Modern English Sermon
Volume 98, Issue 7, 2017 pages 655-757
Data Visualization and the Humanities
Volume 98, Issue 5, 2017 pages 449-548
Special Issue: The Psalms in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England
Volume 98, Issue 1, 2017 pages 1-95
Æthelred II: Reconsidering Unræd
Volume 97, Issue 2, 2016 pages 105-225
Reading Milton through Islam
Volume 96, Issue 1, 2015 pages 1-i
Unræd: Intellectual Thought and Rule in Æthelredian England
Volume 95, Issue 7, 2014 pages 715-823
Unfinished: Critical Approaches to David Foster Wallace's The Pale King
Volume 95, Issue 1, 2014 pages 1-93
Shakespeare and Theory: Special Issue II
Volume 94, Issue 7, 2013 pages 751-iii
Shakespeare and Theory: Special Issue I
Volume 94, Issue 3, 2013 pages 251-370
(Re)Reading John Addington Symonds
Volume 94, Issue 2, 2013 pages 131-250
Holy and Unholy Appetites in Anglo-Saxon England: a Collection of Studies in Honour of Hugh Magennis
Volume 93, Issue 5, 2012 pages 501-622
Stylometry and Authorship Attribution
Volume 93, Issue 3, 2012 pages 251-390
Special Issue: Margaret Cavendish's Mythopoetics
Volume 92, Issue 7, 2011 pages 705-822
Intellectual Entrepôts and Cultural Exchange between the Low Countries and England in the Seventeenth Century
Volume 92, Issue 5, 2011 pages 477-586
Ecocriticism and English Studies
Volume 91, Issue 7, 2010 pages 709-815
Special issue information
English Studies publishes at least two special issues per volume, providing in-depth coverage of carefully selected topics of interest to the global English Studies community. We welcome special issue proposals on any topic in ‘English’, from the Early Medieval period up to the present day, and are particularly keen to consider innovative approaches.
If you’re interested in publishing a special issue with English Studies, please send the following information to the Editor-in-Chief at [email protected]:
- A short summary of no more than 500 words outlining the main contribution of the issue to the broader field of English Studies;
- A projected contents list;
- Short academic biographies of the special issue editor or editors and contributors.
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