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| Philological Quarterly | |
|---|---|
| Title | Philological Quarterly |
| Discipline | Philology, Literature, Linguistics |
| Abbreviation | Philol. Q. |
| Publisher | University of Iowa (historically) |
| Country | United States |
| History | 1922–present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Issn | 0031-7977 |
Philological Quarterly Philological Quarterly is an academic journal established in 1922 that publishes scholarship on medieval and modern English literature, Old English language, Middle English literature, and related textual studies. It has appeared alongside periodicals such as Modern Philology, Speculum, PMLA, Neophilologus, and The Review of English Studies, contributing to research networks that include institutions like University of Iowa, Harvard University, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press.
Founded in 1922 at the University of Iowa under editors connected to the Iowa Writers' Workshop milieu and scholarly programs at University of Chicago and Columbia University, the journal emerged in the wake of earlier philological ventures exemplified by Anglia, Transactions of the Philological Society, and The Modern Language Review. During the interwar period it published work that intersected with projects at British Museum, Bodleian Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, and the John Rylands Library. In the mid-20th century editors drew on manuscript studies associated with scholars at King's College London, Yale University, Princeton University, and University of Oxford, positioning the journal within editorial conversations alongside figures from Sir Walter Scott studies to examinations of Beowulf tradition. Later decades saw contributions engaging with theoretical turns originating at Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and transatlantic collaborations involving Trinity College Dublin.
The journal's remit has encompassed textual criticism, palaeography, historical linguistics, and literary history relating to authors and texts such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Edmund Spenser, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Samuel Johnson, George Eliot, Dante Alighieri, Homer, Virgil, and studies of manuscript witnesses from collections like Cotton Library, Sloane Manuscripts, Lambeth Palace Library, and Cambridge University Library. Articles frequently interact with reference works and projects including Oxford English Dictionary, Early English Text Society, EEBO, and Middle English Dictionary, and they address editorial practices influenced by scholars at Bibliothèque nationale de France, National Library of Scotland, British Library, and Vatican Library.
Published on a quarterly schedule, the journal has been issued by university presses and academic departments with production histories connected to University of Iowa Press and editorial boards featuring faculty from University of Michigan, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and Indiana University Bloomington. Past and present editors have included scholars trained at Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford. The journal's editorial policies engage with standards articulated by organizations such as the Modern Language Association, American Council of Learned Societies, and editorial committees that mirror those of Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.
Articles from the journal are abstracted and indexed in bibliographic services and databases that serve humanities research, alongside listings in MLA International Bibliography, JSTOR, Project MUSE, Scopus, and Web of Science. Its contents have been catalogued in national bibliographies maintained by Library of Congress, British Library, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and integrated into discovery systems used by research libraries at Harvard University, Yale University, University of California, and Princeton University.
Over its history the journal has published work by and about leading philologists, critics, and historians including J. R. R. Tolkien-related scholarship, studies by scholars with ties to Northrop Frye, I. A. Richards, F. R. Leavis, Elaine Scarry, and articles engaging the corpus of Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Butler Yeats, A. C. Bradley, and editorial work informed by archival holdings such as the Parker Library and the Huntington Library. Seminal essays have addressed textual variants in editions of The Canterbury Tales, manuscript traditions of Beowulf, editorial problems in Paradise Lost, and philological approaches to Modernist literature that intersect with debates occurring at Princeton University and Columbia University.
Scholars at institutions including University of Chicago, Columbia University, University of Toronto, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Durham University, and King's College London have cited the journal in bibliographies and historiographies of philology and literary criticism. Its influence is visible in citation networks connecting monographs from Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press to doctoral research produced at Harvard University, Yale University, and University of California, Berkeley, and in curricular adoptions within departments such as those at University of Iowa, University of Michigan, and Indiana University Bloomington.
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