New Literary History focuses on questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history. It welcomes contributions from a wide range of intellectual perspectives. The distinctiveness of NLH lies in its commitment to scrutinizing the principles and procedures of interpretation, to rethinking theory and method, and to reassessing the current buzz-words and by-words of scholarly argument.
Summer 2025
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The Point of It All
by Hayden White from Vol 2, Issue 1, 1970
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2025 Ralph Cohen Prize Winner Announced
Hearty congratulations to Thomas W. Howard, whose essay “Anesthetic Reading: Ether, Nitrous Oxide, and Nineteenth-Century Interpretation” has won the 2025 Ralph Cohen Prize from New Literary History. Currently teaching at Bilkent University (Ankara, Türkiye), his research focuses on nineteenth-century American…