Manuscript Editing for New Literary History Journal Articles
Founded in 1969, New Literary History describes itself as the first English-language journal devoted to literary theory and to general questions of method and interpretation. It is edited at the University of Virginia and published quarterly by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its essays take up “questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history,” whatever their period or language.
Essays run 6,000 to 10,000 words and must carry theoretical significance. Notes are endnotes in Chicago style, and digressive endnotes are cut. After a desk review, essays go to double-blind peer review, and the journal accepts about five percent. You email the anonymized manuscript as a Word file, with the abstract and cover letter as separate files. Our essay editing trims digressions from the notes and sharpens the theoretical claim.
Our Promise
We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to New Literary History. We work with you until it is ready or refund your payment in full. That commitment has held since 2002.
Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed. Your draft is secure until you decide to proceed.
Essay Editing and Proofreading for New Literary History
We offer three levels of manuscript editing depending on what your manuscript needs. Each is described below so you can choose the service that fits where your draft is right now.
Grammar and usage, awkward phrasing, repetition, and passive voice corrected, then clarity, concision, sentence structure, transitions, and tone, with your style manual applied throughout and a final proofread. For authors whose argument and structure are settled.
Clarity, emphasis, and paragraph structure: topic sentences, transitions, and sentences reordered within a paragraph, with every fact and claim kept as you wrote it. Includes copy editing and a final proofread.
Spelling, punctuation, typos, capitalization, grammar, and usage corrected with minimal wording changes, for manuscripts that have been edited and need a last check before submission to New Literary History.
The journal's submission page covers length, notes, and anonymization. If you have reviewer comments from an earlier submission, send them with your manuscript and we will address each one. If you have questions about which service is right for your manuscript, contact us directly. We respond to every inquiry the same day during business hours.
See journal article and essay editing for how we work on theoretical essays, and academic proofreading for the last read before you send. For books, see Johns Hopkins University Press manuscript editing. We also prepare essays for Critical Inquiry.
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Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed.
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Reach our editorial team directly to discuss your manuscript, your New Literary History submission timeline, or which service is right for your project. Initial consultations of up to 15 minutes are complimentary.
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