The Journal

Recent Americanist scholarship has generated some of the most forceful responses to questions about literary history and theory. Yet too many of the most provocative essays have been scattered among a wide variety of narrowly focused publications. Covering the study of US literature from its origins through the present, American Literary History provides a much-needed forum for the various, often competing voices of contemporary literary inquiry.

Click here to read current and past issues of ALH at the Oxford Journals’ website.

The ALH Review

The ALH Review is a new source for in-depth reviews assessing the significance of new books for specialists in American literary history. The Review engages new scholarly and critical studies by deliberating on important shifts and advances in various sub-fields, and exploring major developments in research. All of the reviews are freely available below.

Click here to read current and past series of The ALH Review at the Oxford Journals’ website.