SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 is a quarterly journal published for Rice University by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Submissions: https://sel.rice.edu/submission-guidelines
Marginalia: https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/
Submissions: https://sel.rice.edu/submission-guidelines
Marginalia: https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/
SEL is excited to announce the release of our Autumn 2025 issue, 63.4 all about Neologisms. A huge thank you to our guest editors Padma Rangarajan and Michele Speitz! Read now on @ProjectMuse.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more updates on content and contributors! @hopkinspress.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
SEL is excited to announce the release of our Autumn 2025 issue, 63.4 all about Neologisms. A huge thank you to our guest editors Padma Rangarajan and Michele Speitz! Read now on @ProjectMuse.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more updates on content and contributors! @hopkinspress.bsky.social
🚨New cover alert! In honor of our 65th anniversary, our Winter 2026 issue (64.1) features our first new cover. This themed issue, "Reproduction without Bodies, Bodies without Reproduction," is edited by guest editors Doreen Thierauf, Ashley Miller, and Livia Arndal Woods! #SEL1500to1900 #AcademicSky
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🚨New cover alert! In honor of our 65th anniversary, our Winter 2026 issue (64.1) features our first new cover. This themed issue, "Reproduction without Bodies, Bodies without Reproduction," is edited by guest editors Doreen Thierauf, Ashley Miller, and Livia Arndal Woods! #SEL1500to1900 #AcademicSky
What a wonderful event #NAVSA2025 Thanks to all who worked to make it happen @navsa2025.bsky.social 🙌 If you are looking for a sign to send that paper out for publication 👉 This is it! SEL welcomes the opportunity to consider your work sel.rice.edu/submission-g...
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What a wonderful event #NAVSA2025 Thanks to all who worked to make it happen @navsa2025.bsky.social 🙌 If you are looking for a sign to send that paper out for publication 👉 This is it! SEL welcomes the opportunity to consider your work sel.rice.edu/submission-g...
Happy #NAVSA2025 to all! Thanks to @navsa2025.bsky.social organizers - excited for everyone's work 👀 See you at tonight's reception! 🎈🥳
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Happy #NAVSA2025 to all! Thanks to @navsa2025.bsky.social organizers - excited for everyone's work 👀 See you at tonight's reception! 🎈🥳
Today is National Coming Out Day, and we're reading an article about one of the most famous stories of (maybe (not)) coming out ever told,:Twelfth Night! Jami Ake's "Glimpsing a 'Lesbian' Poetics in Twelfth Night" (43.2, pp. 375-94)
October 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today is National Coming Out Day, and we're reading an article about one of the most famous stories of (maybe (not)) coming out ever told,:Twelfth Night! Jami Ake's "Glimpsing a 'Lesbian' Poetics in Twelfth Night" (43.2, pp. 375-94)
As the summer season departs at 1:19PM CT, there's still a chance to make a splash with issue 63.3 at the poolside.
Whether you're relaxing by the pool or going for a cool swim, 63.3 is the ideal companion. Secure your copy and cherish the last hours of summer! @ricehumanities @hopkinspress
Whether you're relaxing by the pool or going for a cool swim, 63.3 is the ideal companion. Secure your copy and cherish the last hours of summer! @ricehumanities @hopkinspress
September 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
As the summer season departs at 1:19PM CT, there's still a chance to make a splash with issue 63.3 at the poolside.
Whether you're relaxing by the pool or going for a cool swim, 63.3 is the ideal companion. Secure your copy and cherish the last hours of summer! @ricehumanities @hopkinspress
Whether you're relaxing by the pool or going for a cool swim, 63.3 is the ideal companion. Secure your copy and cherish the last hours of summer! @ricehumanities @hopkinspress
Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield on September 7, 1709, but, when England switched to the New Style calendar in 1752, Johnson took to celebrating his birthday on September 18. We're reading Nicholas Hudson's "Samuel Johnson, Urban Culture, and the Geography of Postfire London"(42.3, pp. 577-600).
September 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield on September 7, 1709, but, when England switched to the New Style calendar in 1752, Johnson took to celebrating his birthday on September 18. We're reading Nicholas Hudson's "Samuel Johnson, Urban Culture, and the Geography of Postfire London"(42.3, pp. 577-600).
Join us in celebrating Defoe's potential birthday by reading Ian Newman's "Property, History, and Identity in Defoe's Captain Singleton" (50.3, pp. 565-83). Newman argues that unlike the self-fashioning Robinson Crusoe, Singleton represents an identity beyond possessive individualism (p. 566).
September 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Join us in celebrating Defoe's potential birthday by reading Ian Newman's "Property, History, and Identity in Defoe's Captain Singleton" (50.3, pp. 565-83). Newman argues that unlike the self-fashioning Robinson Crusoe, Singleton represents an identity beyond possessive individualism (p. 566).
📣 SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our Summer 2025 issue, 63,3! 👉 shout out to @peterharringtonltd.bsky.social
who we interviewed for this issue! Read now on @projectmuse.bsky.social and stay tuned for more updates on contents and contributors muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.rice.edu/issue/55435
who we interviewed for this issue! Read now on @projectmuse.bsky.social and stay tuned for more updates on contents and contributors muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.rice.edu/issue/55435
August 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
📣 SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our Summer 2025 issue, 63,3! 👉 shout out to @peterharringtonltd.bsky.social
who we interviewed for this issue! Read now on @projectmuse.bsky.social and stay tuned for more updates on contents and contributors muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.rice.edu/issue/55435
who we interviewed for this issue! Read now on @projectmuse.bsky.social and stay tuned for more updates on contents and contributors muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.rice.edu/issue/55435
Belated Birthday Post 🎂
On August 9th, star of Jane Austen's Persuasion, turned 27 for the 217th time, and to celebrate, we're reading Emily Rohrbach's "Austen's Later Subjects" (44.4, pp. 737-52). For a probing look at some of Austen's most interesting work, visit SEL at Project MUSE!
On August 9th, star of Jane Austen's Persuasion, turned 27 for the 217th time, and to celebrate, we're reading Emily Rohrbach's "Austen's Later Subjects" (44.4, pp. 737-52). For a probing look at some of Austen's most interesting work, visit SEL at Project MUSE!
August 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Belated Birthday Post 🎂
On August 9th, star of Jane Austen's Persuasion, turned 27 for the 217th time, and to celebrate, we're reading Emily Rohrbach's "Austen's Later Subjects" (44.4, pp. 737-52). For a probing look at some of Austen's most interesting work, visit SEL at Project MUSE!
On August 9th, star of Jane Austen's Persuasion, turned 27 for the 217th time, and to celebrate, we're reading Emily Rohrbach's "Austen's Later Subjects" (44.4, pp. 737-52). For a probing look at some of Austen's most interesting work, visit SEL at Project MUSE!
📖 Latest Book Review Live 📣
Taylin Nelson, a PhD candidate at Rice University, offers a thoughtful review of Kaori Nagai's "Imperial Beast Fables". Nelson finds Nagai's engagement in non-western perspectives accessible, compelling and interesting.
To read, click the link in our bio 🤓
Taylin Nelson, a PhD candidate at Rice University, offers a thoughtful review of Kaori Nagai's "Imperial Beast Fables". Nelson finds Nagai's engagement in non-western perspectives accessible, compelling and interesting.
To read, click the link in our bio 🤓
August 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📖 Latest Book Review Live 📣
Taylin Nelson, a PhD candidate at Rice University, offers a thoughtful review of Kaori Nagai's "Imperial Beast Fables". Nelson finds Nagai's engagement in non-western perspectives accessible, compelling and interesting.
To read, click the link in our bio 🤓
Taylin Nelson, a PhD candidate at Rice University, offers a thoughtful review of Kaori Nagai's "Imperial Beast Fables". Nelson finds Nagai's engagement in non-western perspectives accessible, compelling and interesting.
To read, click the link in our bio 🤓
On Emily Brontë's 207th birthday, we're reading Kate Lawson's "Shirley, History after Wuthering Heights" (61.4 pp.623-39). arguing that Charlotte's novel Shirley acts as a spiritual and thematic successor to her sister's gothic masterpiece. #HBD
July 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
On Emily Brontë's 207th birthday, we're reading Kate Lawson's "Shirley, History after Wuthering Heights" (61.4 pp.623-39). arguing that Charlotte's novel Shirley acts as a spiritual and thematic successor to her sister's gothic masterpiece. #HBD
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 presents our new partner publication Marginalia! Our aim is to craft public-facing, somewhat informal meditations on the work of studying literature writ large.
📖 Book Reviews
🎙️ Interviews
📜 Archive Meditations
📝 Critical Essays and Op-eds
Link in bio!
📖 Book Reviews
🎙️ Interviews
📜 Archive Meditations
📝 Critical Essays and Op-eds
Link in bio!
July 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 presents our new partner publication Marginalia! Our aim is to craft public-facing, somewhat informal meditations on the work of studying literature writ large.
📖 Book Reviews
🎙️ Interviews
📜 Archive Meditations
📝 Critical Essays and Op-eds
Link in bio!
📖 Book Reviews
🎙️ Interviews
📜 Archive Meditations
📝 Critical Essays and Op-eds
Link in bio!
Before we had the Constitution, Shakespeare gave us the Drama.
🎭 Revisit the Drama
📚 Read Paul Olson’s article
💭 Reflect critically about how government emerges…
SEL Spring 63.2 Issue is live now. Link in bio.
🎭 Revisit the Drama
📚 Read Paul Olson’s article
💭 Reflect critically about how government emerges…
SEL Spring 63.2 Issue is live now. Link in bio.
July 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Before we had the Constitution, Shakespeare gave us the Drama.
🎭 Revisit the Drama
📚 Read Paul Olson’s article
💭 Reflect critically about how government emerges…
SEL Spring 63.2 Issue is live now. Link in bio.
🎭 Revisit the Drama
📚 Read Paul Olson’s article
💭 Reflect critically about how government emerges…
SEL Spring 63.2 Issue is live now. Link in bio.
In their article for SEL 63.2 Kirsten Sandrock describes King Lear’s encounter with the storm as “a spinning movement toward globality” symbolizing his fall as nonlinear and spatially disruptive (197). Read more about Atlantic weather and temporalities in King Lear 👉 buff.ly/ZT4osHN
June 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In their article for SEL 63.2 Kirsten Sandrock describes King Lear’s encounter with the storm as “a spinning movement toward globality” symbolizing his fall as nonlinear and spatially disruptive (197). Read more about Atlantic weather and temporalities in King Lear 👉 buff.ly/ZT4osHN
SEL 63.2 on the Willow Song 🎵
💡 "Rather than being straightforwardly somber, the Willow Song can also play to the audience as comic and parodic. Reading the Willow Song in this way completely reverses the standard reading of Othello act IV, scene iii..." buff.ly/ZT4osHN
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💡 "Rather than being straightforwardly somber, the Willow Song can also play to the audience as comic and parodic. Reading the Willow Song in this way completely reverses the standard reading of Othello act IV, scene iii..." buff.ly/ZT4osHN
@projectmuse.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
SEL 63.2 on the Willow Song 🎵
💡 "Rather than being straightforwardly somber, the Willow Song can also play to the audience as comic and parodic. Reading the Willow Song in this way completely reverses the standard reading of Othello act IV, scene iii..." buff.ly/ZT4osHN
@projectmuse.bsky.social
💡 "Rather than being straightforwardly somber, the Willow Song can also play to the audience as comic and parodic. Reading the Willow Song in this way completely reverses the standard reading of Othello act IV, scene iii..." buff.ly/ZT4osHN
@projectmuse.bsky.social
“The scene's erotic undertones, insofar as Edward places his head in the lap of another male intimate, yoke together queerness with the potentialities explored through his speech” (160).
👀 Read Emily King's article on Marlowe's play Edward II in our Spring 63.2 issue buff.ly/ZT4osHN
👀 Read Emily King's article on Marlowe's play Edward II in our Spring 63.2 issue buff.ly/ZT4osHN
June 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“The scene's erotic undertones, insofar as Edward places his head in the lap of another male intimate, yoke together queerness with the potentialities explored through his speech” (160).
👀 Read Emily King's article on Marlowe's play Edward II in our Spring 63.2 issue buff.ly/ZT4osHN
👀 Read Emily King's article on Marlowe's play Edward II in our Spring 63.2 issue buff.ly/ZT4osHN
ICYMI 📣 Our Spring 2025 issue is live! Read Paul A. Olson's article about the construction of government in Shakespeare's Henry VI-Richard III plays in SEL 63.2 👉 buff.ly/ZT4osHN
June 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
ICYMI 📣 Our Spring 2025 issue is live! Read Paul A. Olson's article about the construction of government in Shakespeare's Henry VI-Richard III plays in SEL 63.2 👉 buff.ly/ZT4osHN
📣 SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our Spring 2025 issue, 63,2! Read about songs in early modern drama, queering history with Edward II, Shakespeare on government, and Atlantic weather in King Lear 👉 shout out to @freeburian.bsky.social who we interviewed for this issue! buff.ly/ZT4osHN
May 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
📣 SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our Spring 2025 issue, 63,2! Read about songs in early modern drama, queering history with Edward II, Shakespeare on government, and Atlantic weather in King Lear 👉 shout out to @freeburian.bsky.social who we interviewed for this issue! buff.ly/ZT4osHN
on this US tax day, SEL is revisiting David Glimp's essay on sovereignty in Shakespeare's plays & taxes as "a site at which people might ... lay claim to forms of agency and capacities to intervene in the governance of the realm" (SEL 58.1, p. 27) Read at @projectmuse.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
on this US tax day, SEL is revisiting David Glimp's essay on sovereignty in Shakespeare's plays & taxes as "a site at which people might ... lay claim to forms of agency and capacities to intervene in the governance of the realm" (SEL 58.1, p. 27) Read at @projectmuse.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social
Belated #HBD to Andrew Marvell born 31 March 1621 🥳 Marvell wrote against the abuse of power and in favor of religious dissent, and his poetry is remembered for its politics as much as metaphysics. Read more in SEL's latest issue on ProjectMUSE buff.ly/gSJtxdc @hopkinspress.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Belated #HBD to Andrew Marvell born 31 March 1621 🥳 Marvell wrote against the abuse of power and in favor of religious dissent, and his poetry is remembered for its politics as much as metaphysics. Read more in SEL's latest issue on ProjectMUSE buff.ly/gSJtxdc @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Congratulations to SAA Award Winners #Shax2025 including Gavin Hollis’s “Trifling with Catastrophe in King Lear,” runner up for innovative article award, published in SEL 62.1. You can read the article and the whole themed issue, "World, Globe, Planet," for free right now @projectmuse.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Congratulations to SAA Award Winners #Shax2025 including Gavin Hollis’s “Trifling with Catastrophe in King Lear,” runner up for innovative article award, published in SEL 62.1. You can read the article and the whole themed issue, "World, Globe, Planet," for free right now @projectmuse.bsky.social
🎉 Int'l Women's Day is 8 March & SEL is celebrating scholarship on gender, women's history, and women's literature across 400 years. Recent issues feature feminist bibliography, portrayal of maternal bodies & female erotics, analysis of feminine duty & women's experiences @hopkinspress.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🎉 Int'l Women's Day is 8 March & SEL is celebrating scholarship on gender, women's history, and women's literature across 400 years. Recent issues feature feminist bibliography, portrayal of maternal bodies & female erotics, analysis of feminine duty & women's experiences @hopkinspress.bsky.social
#HBD to Sir John Tenniel born #OTD 1820 🥳 Political cartoonist and illustrator, Tenniel is best remembered for his illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Thomas analyzes his illustrations of the hybrid creatures in wonderland (SEL 48.4) @projectmuse.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
#HBD to Sir John Tenniel born #OTD 1820 🥳 Political cartoonist and illustrator, Tenniel is best remembered for his illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Thomas analyzes his illustrations of the hybrid creatures in wonderland (SEL 48.4) @projectmuse.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social
👀 Did you see us on the RSA 2025 program? SEL is excited for the RSA/SAA conference in Boston! #RSA2025 #Shax2025 See you there Renaissance, Early Modern, and Shakespeare studies scholars 🪶 @saaupdates.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
👀 Did you see us on the RSA 2025 program? SEL is excited for the RSA/SAA conference in Boston! #RSA2025 #Shax2025 See you there Renaissance, Early Modern, and Shakespeare studies scholars 🪶 @saaupdates.bsky.social