Huntington Library Quarterly

OVERVIEW
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.

ARTICLE TYPES
HLQ publishes four types of essays:

Research Articles: standard monographic essays based on original research and interpretation, usually 8,000–12,000 words, including notes
Sources: short critical editions of previously unpublished textual or visual sources, translated into English when applicable, with a full critical apparatus and interpretive intervention, 3,000–12,000 words
Review Essays: state-of-the-field and methodological essays, usually 3,000–5,000 words, commissioned or submitted
Early/Modern Connections: interventions that explicitly link original early modern research to public humanities and the public interest

We also publish special issues—similar to edited book volumes—in which a group of essays connected by a common theme, topic, or approach is submitted collectively, with an introduction, by an editor or editors. If the issue is accepted for publication, the submitting editors become guest co-editors of the issue. Guidelines for special issues can be found here:

HLQ is published by The Huntington, a world-leading research center with vast early modern holdings in its Library, Art, and Botanical divisions. Although the journal welcomes submissions that draw directly on these resources, the location of research or source material has no influence on publication decisions.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Authors should submit a completed draft with usage and footnotes following the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Please double-space, set one-inch margins, paginate, and use a 12-point typeface in your manuscript. The HLQ uses double-blind peer review. Please anonymize your submission, including footnotes, by removing any identifying information, including expressions of thanks and “see my” references to previously published work.

HLQ welcomes illustrations and imposes no limit on the number of figures. Illustrations are published in color in print and online. Images supplied upon submission may be nonprofessional snapshots, but high-resolution images will be required for publication, as will evidence either that the copyright holder of the original item does not require publication fees or has granted them.