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JSTOR
Archive of scholarly journals.

MLA International Bibliography
Bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Includes coverage from 1963-present. Provides access to scholarly research in 3000+ journals and series, and relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliograpies, and other formats.

Boundary 2
Duke University Press
Project Muse : Vol. 26, no. 3 (1999) through current issue
"Extending beyond the postmodern, boundary 2 approaches problems of literature and culture from a number of politically, historically, and theoretically informed perspectives. boundary 2 remains committed to understanding the present and approaching the study of culture and politics (national and international) through literature, philosophy, and the human sciences."
Print Copy: vol. 1- (fall 1972-)
Widener Philol 335.18 ; Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room

Criticism
Wayne State University Press
Project Muse: Vols. 43-44, 2001-02
"…features scholarly and critical essays on a variety of topics, offering a range of approaches to critical theory, literary history, genres, and texts, including film and folklore. The journal deals with artists, art, and literature from all periods, either individually or in their interrelationships."
Print Copy: vol. 1- (winter 1959-)
Widener Philol 37 .34 ; Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room

Diacritics
John Hopkins University Press
JSTOR: Vols. 1-25, 1971-1995
Project Muse: Vols. 26 (1996) - current issue
" …a forum for scholars writing on the problems of literary criticism. Each issue features articles in which contributors compare and analyze books on particular theoretical works and develop their own positions on these theses, methods, and theoretical implications of those works."
Print Copy: vol. 1- (fall 1971-)
Widener Philol 359 .10 ; Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room

Eighteenth-Century Studies
John Hopkins University Press
JSTOR: v. 1-28 (1967-1995)
Continued at Project Muse: v. 29-35 (1995-2002)
Eighteenth-Century Studies is the official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). The journal prints current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal explores how recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas have engaged scholars concerned with the eighteenth century through its focus on different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses. Many theme issues. Book review essays included.
Print copy, v. 1-35 (1967-2001/2002); currently received in Widener.
Widener Philol 346.23; Current issues in Perodicals Reading Room Stacks.

French Forum
University of Nebraska Press
Project Muse: v. 26- (2001-)
The Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania publishes this journal three times a year. It covers all genres and all periods of French and francophone literature for students and scholars of the same. Book Reviews and Books Received sections.
Print copy, v. 1-26 (1976-2001); currently received in Widener.
Widener: WID-LC PQ 1 .F82; Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room Stacks.

French Historical Studies
Duke University Press (sponsored by the Society for French Historical Studies)
JSTOR: Vols. 1-22, 1958-1999
Project Muse: 22-25, 1999-2002
This quarterly journal "publishes articles, commentaries, and research notes on all periods of French history from the Middle Ages to the present. The journal's diverse format includes forums, review essays, special issues, and articles in French, as well as bilingual abstracts of the articles in each issue. Also featured are bibliographies of recent dissertations and books and announcements of fellowships, prizes, and conferences of interest to French historians. Special issues in preparation discuss recent perspectives on the history of Paris, colonialism and the writing of French history, and visual arts in the writing of French History."
Designated web site for journal with summary of current and special issues.
Print copy, vol. 1- (1958-); currently received in Widener.
Widener Fr 6.15; Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room Stacks

French Review
Official journal of the American Association of Teachers of French. Web site has table of contents and abstracts of articles.

Liberation Journals Project
An analytic, searchable, online index covering the interwar Pan-African periodicals La Revue du Monde Noir, Légitime Défense, L’Étudiant Noir, the wartime Tropiques, and the postwar Présence Africaine, as well as the Québécois journal Liberté.

MLN
JSTOR: 77-109 (1962-1994)
Continued at Project Muse: v.111 - (1996-)
Publishing five issues per year (four single-language issues, Italian, Hispanic, German, French and comparative literature issues), MLN is devoted to critical studies of literature, recent work in comparative literature and film and feminist studies. Book Review and Books Received sections included.
Print copy of v. 1-117 (1886-2002); currently received in Widener.
Widener: Philol 338; Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room, inquire at desk.

Modern Language Notes
Johns Hopkins University Press
JSTOR: 1-76 (1886-1961)

Modern Language Quarterly (MLQ)
University of Washington-Seattle
Project Muse: v. 60 (1999) - Present
A quarterly journal publishing essays and book reviews emphasizing the "relationship of literary change or historicism to feminism, ethnic studies, cultural materialism, discourse analysis, and all other forms of representation and cultural change." MLQ is "dedicated to scholarship the illuminates texts of the recent and distant past. It is devoted to those texts as representations, agents, and vehicles of change."
Table of contents.
Print copy, v. 1-63 (1940-2002); currently received in Widener.
Widener: Philol 335.14; Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room.

Montaigne Studies
Annual interdisciplinary journal. Web site has table of contents and abstracts of articles.

Nineteenth Century French Studies
University of Nebraska Press
Project Muse: v. 29 - (2001)
"An independent journal published twice a year in two double issues. The pages of NCFS provide scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings and become better acquainted with professional developments in nineteenth-century French studies." Extensive Book Review section grouping reviews in categories such as General Critical Studies, Poetry, Theater, etc. and also by author, such as Baudelaire Studies, Flaubert Studies, etc. The journal invites scholars to signal their interest in reviewing new books.
NCFS web site at the University of Nebraska
Print copy, v. 1-30 (1972/1973-2001/2002); currently received in Widener.
Widener: Philol 475.14; Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room Stacks.

Nineteenth-Century Literature
University of California Press
JSTOR: Vols. 41-52 (Issue 3), 1986-1998.
Originally appeared as The Trollopian (vols. 1-3, 1945-49) when it was first published in 1945. Changed to Nineteenth-Century Fiction (vols. 4-40, 1949-86) until 1986 when it assumed its present title. Published quarterly, it focuses on English-language writers of the nineteenth century and annually reviews "over 70 volumes of scholarship, criticism, comparative studies, and new editions of nineteenth-century English and American literature." Every issue offers "articles, article abstracts, review essays, and an annotated bibliography of recent books published in the field of nineteenth-century literature."
Table of contents
Print Copy: vol. 40, no.1 - (1986-)
Widener WID-LC PR873 .T76x ; Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room

Renaissance Quarterly
Renaissance Society of America
JSTOR: Vols. 20-51, 1967-1998 (3yr wall)
A quarterly journal publishing recent scholarly work on the Renaissance period in the disciplines of history, art, philosophy, music, literature, etc, it began in 1948 under the name Renaissance News (vols. 1-19, 1948-1966) but changed in 1967 to Renaissance Quarterly. In 1974, it absorbed the journal Studies in the Renaissance (vols. 1-21, 1954-1974). All titles are/were published by the Renaissance Society of America.
See Rennaissance Society of America for table of contents for current and previous issues.
Studies in the Renaissance: vol. 1-21 (1954-1974)
Widener Philol 299.55; absorbed into Renaissance Quarterly
Renaissance News: v. 1-19; spring 1948-winter 1966.
Renaissance Quarterly: v. 20- spring 1967-
Widener Philol 299.55.10; Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room

Representations
University of California Press
JSTOR: No. 1 - No. 60, 1983-1997 (4yr wall)
A journal in interdisciplinary studies published quarterly which pursues scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Edited by a group of scholars, the journal publishes articles in a "wide variety of fields - literature, history, art history, anthropology, and social theory - as well as special, single-theme issues that attempt to define and bring into focus the pressing intellectual issues of our time."

Speculum
Medieval Academy of America
JSTOR: Vols. 1-71, 1926-1996 (5yr wall)
"Speculum is the oldest U.S. journal devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages…defined as approximately A.D. 500-1500. The primary geographic focus of the journal is on Western Europe, but Byzantine, Hebrew, Arabic, and Slavic studies are also included. There are no restrictions as to subject matter: the journal publishes articles and book reviews on any and all aspects of the Middle Ages, including art, history, literature, philosophy and theology, music, science, law, and economics. All scholarly methodologies and approaches are welcome."
Print copy, v. 1- (1926-); currently received in Widener.
Widener LB 5; Current issues in Perodicals Reading Room Stacks.

Transition
Duke University Press
JSTOR: No. 1 - No. 80, 1961-1999
Project Muse: Vols. 9, [81/82] - 10, [88], 2000-2001 (5yr wall)
Illustrated with art and photography, "each issue of Transition features book reviews and essays on topics such as Mike Tyson, Theodor Adorno, the Zapatista rebellion, visual anthropology, bisexuality, British history, African art, and Haitian film." Each issue also contains "interviews with personalities from Angela Davis and Ice Cube to Maxine Hong Kingston, Tony Kushner, Spike Lee, and Louis Farrakhan."
Print copy, v. 1- (1961-); currently received in Widener
Widener AP9 .T7 ; Bound volumes in Stacks. Consult Circ. desk for volumes (v.63-64) at Harvard Depository. Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room Stacks.

Yale French Studies
Yale University Press
JSTOR: Issues 1-96 (1948-2000)
A semi-annual journal publishing "essays on things French." Each issue is edited by specific scholars and addresses specific themes related to literature, film, biography, history, theory and popular culture.
For Table of contents of v. 78-101 (1990-2002)
Print copy, v. 1-100 (1948-2001); currently received in Widener.
Widener: Philol 346.80; Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room stacks.

Yale Journal of Criticism
John Hopkins University Press
Project Muse: v. 9 - (1996)
A semi-annual journal focusing on interdisciplinary debates in the humanities, including literature, philosophy, popular culture and visual arts. Conference papers, review essays and original art are also included.
Print copy, v. 1-14 (1987/1988-2001); currently received in Widener.
Widener: WID-LC PN 80 .Y35x; Current issues in Periodicals Reading Room.

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