The Yearbook of English Studies

Available through JSTOR Current Scholarship Program from January 2012.

The Yearbook is partly intended to provide an additional outlet for articles dealing with the literature and language of English-speaking countries submitted to The Modern Language Review, including some of the more ambitious or more specialized papers.

Contributions on English subjects submitted to The Modern Language Review or the Yearbook (other than those for special numbers of the Yearbook) will continue to be considered for both publications interchangeably.

This lively collection deserves to be read not only by specialists but by students in need of an accessible introduction to the breadth of canonical Victorian literature.

Matthew Beaumont, review of Victorian Literature (YES 36:2) in TLS, 30 March 2007, p. 24.

Latest Volume

Volume 41:2 (July 2011) entitled Victorian World Literatures is available online here. The full contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available, with links to the full text.

Online Archive

The complete run of YES (from 1971--) is now available at JSTOR to participating institutions.
Access online here.

Forthcoming Volumes

Volume 42 (July 2012) will be on the literature of the 1950s and 1960s.

Format

A substantial proportion of each volume consists of specially commissioned articles on a broad topic or theme which varies from year to year, and of articles and reviews submitted to the Editors which happen to have a bearing on that particular issue's topic or theme.

No correspondence is published in the Yearbook, nor are advertisements carried.

Scope

The Yearbook is devoted to the language and literatures of the English-speaking world.

Sample Article

A sample article is available here. Originally published in YES 33 (2003), John Scahill's article 'Trilingualism in Early Middle English Miscellanies: Languages and Literature' identifies a non-pragmatic 'literary' tendency in early Middle English trilingual miscellanies whereby texts acquire additional significance through their relationship to other texts and to the miscellany as a whole.

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