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Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 is a quarterly journal of historical and critical studies.

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 is a quarterly journal of historical and critical studies, published for Rice University by Johns Hopkins University Press. Each issue is devoted to one of four fields, and includes an article reviewing books recently published in that field:

Winter: English Renaissance
Spring: Tudor and Stuart Drama
Summer: Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Autumn: Nineteenth Century

The journal is a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

10/06/2026

In SEL’s latest issue (64.3), Saree Makdisi reviews recent studies in the Restoration, 18C, and 19C for the scholarly conversation on culture and imperialism. Makdisi notes that studies frequently assume racial difference “in opposition to a settled, white, Western, English domestic subject position,” yet during the 18 and 19C, “the imperial center was not nearly as settled and ordered and purged of difference as is often assumed.” Find the full article on Project MUSE https://buff.ly/8FyrT9C

Photo credit: British Empire Map from 1886 The Graphic, Supplement, courtesy of British Library, Colindale

10/01/2026

In SEL's latest issue, Chance David Pahl explores the "fractured essence of the periodical miscellany to promote tasteful consumption of literature," suggesting that "Brooke makes virtue of necessity while impressing a sense of legitimacy on the humble single-essay journal." Check out the full article on Project MUSE! https://buff.ly/JQja0dR

09/29/2026

In SEL's latest issue, Melissa Merte examines the relationship between Horticultural displays and the representation of nineteenth-century womanhood. Merte argues that Elizabeth Gaskell uses settings such as greenhouses and indoor aquariums to construct a relationship between botanical and marital narrative pathways. Read the full article on Project MUSE! https://buff.ly/URsuuMk

Photo Credit: Helena de Kay. ca. 1870–77. Water Lilies [Oil on canvas]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

09/24/2026

SEL's partner publication, Marginalia, has a new installment of our interview series Marginalia Office Hours. Take a first listen to our most recent conversation with Dr. Ann C. Christensen, Professor of English at University of Houston and author of A Warning for Fair Women: Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare's Theatre.

09/22/2026

New book review live on Marginalia! Morgan Bettin-Coleman reviews The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and the Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1883 in which Bettin-Coleman describes as "a unique viewpoint of the American Revolution, framing it not as an example of a "negative American exceptionalism" but rather one response of many that emerged in this complex social setting". Check out the full review now!

09/17/2026

In SEL 64.3, James O'Rourke reappraises Jane Austen's use of free indirect discourse in Pride and Prejudice. He argues that "it solicits an active reading that shreds the authority of the most straightforward assertions of both Elizabeth and the heterodiegetic narrator." Read the full article on Project MUSE! https://buff.ly/d7WlRAq

Photo Credit: Photo by Elaine Howlin on Unsplash

09/16/2026

New book review live on Marginalia! Grace Fox reviews Victorian Women and Wayward Reading (Cambridge University Press 2020) which Fox describes as "[offering] an alternative identity for Victorian women readers: that of the wayward reader." Check out the full review now! https://buff.ly/1M8j5vk

09/10/2026

In SEL's latest issue (64.3), we have an exciting installment of "SEL: The Roundtable" on Trans Studies and the Eighteenth Century. Listen to one of our roundtable authors, M.A. Miller speak about his paper where he argues that "in the divine meanwhile...what endures is a trans-feminine futurity that exceeds both archival containment and imperial derision." Find the full paper and roundtable on Project MUSE, available now! https://buff.ly/T5rVazH

09/08/2026

SEL is still accepting proposals to a themed issue on Decolonizing Historical English Literary Studies. This call welcomes essays that imagine new possibilities for the study of historical English literature beyond colonial frameworks. Find the full CFP and submission guidelines shared on SEL's website https://buff.ly/dyrrHa9

09/03/2026

Check out this amazing video by Grace Lavery about papers featured in our latest SEL: The Roundtable in our 64.3 Summer 2026 issue! We're so happy to work with such amazing scholars! https://buff.ly/AKmnsuX

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