Aims and Scope

Nineteenth Century Prose aims to publish high-quality scholarly work on nineteenth-century prose, literary history, cultural studies, intellectual history, and related fields.

Aims

The journal seeks to promote serious academic discussion of nineteenth-century prose and its relationship to literature, culture, society, politics, religion, science, philosophy, print history, and intellectual life.

It aims to support scholarship that deepens understanding of the long nineteenth century and its role in shaping modern literary and cultural formations.

Scope

The journal welcomes submissions on topics including, but not limited to:

• Nineteenth-century fiction, essays, criticism, reviews, and periodical prose
• Literary history and the development of prose traditions
• Print culture, publishing history, and readership
• Intellectual movements and cultural debates of the nineteenth century
• Gender, class, race, empire, colonialism, reform, and social change
• Religion, science, philosophy, politics, and public discourse
• Biography, autobiography, travel writing, letters, and memoirs
• Comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches

The journal accepts original research articles, review essays, critical studies, and other scholarly contributions relevant to nineteenth-century prose and culture.