JSTOR Lives of Literature is a collection of academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements. Key topics include: Medieval Authors & Texts; Modernist Authors; Victorian, Edwardian & Gothic Authors; and Literary Theorists.
Highlights
Medieval Authors & Texts
- Journal of Medieval Latin and Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, which come to us from noted Medieval Studies publisher Brepols
- Mawlana Rumi Review, devoted to the beloved Islamic Sufi poet
- Romania, which, dating to 1872, is the longest-standing journal in Lives of Literature
Modernist Authors
- Flannery O’Connor Review, published at Georgia College, Ms. O’Connor’s home state
- Année Baudelaire, published by renowned French publisher Honoré Champion, which has its home in a gorgeous bookstore in Paris’s Left Bank
- Parade Sauvage and Revue Verlaine, about poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, both also of Paris’s Left Bank
Victorian, Edwardian & Gothic Authors
- Dickens Studies Annual explores the wide range of Charles Dickens’s interests and talents
- Green Book, covering Irish gothic, supernatural and fantastic literature
- Gaskell Journal, on Elizabeth Gaskell, equally famous for her Bronte biography as for the many BBC adaptations
Literary Theorists
- CLR James Journal, devoted to the Trinidiadian scholar, known for his work on the subaltern
- Arendt Studies, a brand new journal on Hannah Arendt, who taught for 40 years at the New School
- Simone de Beauvoir Studies, rounding out Lives of Literature’s coverage of French intellectual culture
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