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modern-language-quarterly

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Use when targeting Modern Language Quarterly (MLQ) or deciding whether a literary-history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's literary-history fit, the historically grounded argument bar, periodization and change-over-time expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

When to use

• fit/framing check for MLQ
• re-framing reading as argument about change over time
• choosing between MLQ and other venues
• MLQ literary-history bar
• desk-reject heuristics
• histories of genre, form, mode, and convention
• periodization and literary-historical categories
• studies of literary change across career, movement, or tradition

When not to use

• purely formalist reading detached from historical change
• theory-application piece indifferent to literary history
• present-focused theoretical or interpretive essay
• agenda-setting high theory across the arts
• argument about the theory or method of literary study itself
• new-historicist analysis

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