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Aims and Scope
The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400–1800). Its content reflects an early modern world that was connected and cosmopolitan, with diverse communities and cultures increasingly linked by the circulation of people, ideas, social practices, and material objects in ways that transcend disciplinary and geographic boundaries. We invite submissions that draw on the sources, methods, and theoretical frameworks of literature, art, history, science, medicine, material culture, music, performance, and critical cultural studies, with a preference for scholarship that is broadly legible across disciplines.
HLQ’s historical focus on Britain and its American colonies has been dramatically expanded to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, as well as their intersections with Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds.
Journal information
Publication model: Nonprofit, partly supported by subscription and download revenues.
Open access: Green OA, with an embargo of 12 months.
Publishing formats: Print and online (Project MUSE)
Publication frequency: Quarterly
Launch date: 1937
Peer Review model: Double-blind
Indexed in: Over 70 arts and humanities indices by Clarivate, EBSCOhost, Elsevier, Gale, OCLC, and ProQuest. See UlrichsWEB for details.
Digital archive: JSTOR
Unique article identifiers: Yes, DOI and persistent URL
Licensing: Copyright Clearance Center
Publication fee
The HLQ does not charge publication fees. Authors are responsible for fees charged by other institutions for photography and permission to publish (e.g., of manuscript excerpts or images) if submission is accepted. We have a small budget to assist scholars without institutional support for such expenses; if this describes you, please enquire.
Sponsors and affiliated institutions
The Huntington Library Quarterly is produced by the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.