SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 is a quarterly journal published for Rice University by Johns Hopkins University Press. Submissions: https://sel.rice.edu/submission-guidelines-faq Marginalia: https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mq32ir7xjy2c🏖️Marginalia's staff are taking a well-deserved summer break! While they rest, travel, and enjoy their time, Marginalia will be on hiatus. Once our staff return in late August, we'll be back with new essays, interviews, and book reviews! Until then, please enjoy our back catalogue from our first year07 Jul 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq32ir7xjy2chttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mpohgtppb22cSEL is pleased to announce the publication of our inaugural SEL: The Roundtable on Early Modern Women's Rage. Part of our Living Discourse initiative, SEL: The Roundtable brings together scholars to participate in a roundtable discussion surrounding a central theme.02 Jul 2026 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpohgtppb22chttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mpjgjucc6h2xIn SEL's latest issue, Lee examines The Comedy of Errors as a conflict between the male-dominated commercial sphere and the female-dominated domestic one over an important resource: time.30 Jun 2026 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjgjucc6h2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3moxta6sdbx2lIn SEL's 64.2 issue, Miller-Tomlinson uses Henry V to reconceptualize the playhouse as an alternative model of affective economy. muse.jhu.edu/article/990179 Image Citation: Branston, Allen Robert, and Thurston, John. Henry V, Act V, Scene 2 . [1778-1827]. Folger Shakespeare Library. Artstor.23 Jun 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3moxta6sdbx2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mog7z4gxw72rIn SEL's 64.2 issue, Lee analyzes how the market disrupts the domestic space in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Lee argues that “the play ultimately affirms the vital role that women collectively play in preserving social unity and harmony." Read now on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/99017816 Jun 2026 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mog7z4gxw72rhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mnznkxgjjq2g🪻SEL is entering our lavender era! SEL is pleased to announce the release of our Spring 2026 issue (64.2) featuring our inaugural installment of "SEL: The Roundtable." Read now on Project MUSE and stay tuned for more updates on contents and contributors. muse.jhu.edu/issue/5686611 Jun 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnznkxgjjq2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mlqq24pmtb2cSEL's spring issue (64.2) is set to release later this month. We are excited to share a teaser of the cover image ahead of the issue's release. Leave your guesses on the cover image in the comments! *Hint* Our cover is bringing floral fashion for the summer weather!13 May 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqq24pmtb2chttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3ml4mcmnhwg2zFor SEL's 65th anniversary, two undergraduate students conducted research in the SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 papers at the Woodson Research Center as part of the Fondren Fellows program.05 May 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4mcmnhwg2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mkpzyjwcqy2l#OTD 167 years ago Dickens published the first issue of his literary magazine, All the Year Round featuring the of his classic text A Tale of Two Cities. Image Citation: Dickens Giving the Last Reading of His Works. n.d. Wellcome Collection. https://jstor.org/stable/community.24723836.30 Apr 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpzyjwcqy2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mkkz2ipdyx2pCalling all Macbeth fans! Codiamat reviews Macbeth Before Shakespeare which Codiamat describes as "[guiding] the reader through understanding the aspects of what we understand about the man Macbeth, as opposed to the literary character." Check out the review https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/2026/04/21/tracing-the-origins-of-macbeth-a-review-by-kathryn-codiamat/28 Apr 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkz2ipdyx2phttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mk6gsmjxom2kIn SEL's 64.1, Thierauf argues that infamous demographer Thomas Malthus influenced four works of spec fiction, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, and Filippo-Tommaso Marinetti’s Mafarka the Futurist.23 Apr 2026 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6gsmjxom2khttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mjzfs5suoq2xIn SEL's 64.1, Zigarovich examines eighteenth-century medical treatises to understand how intersex people were understood and how their bodies were categorized. Image Citation: Von Holst, Theodor, Victor Frankenstein Observing the First Stirrings of His Creature. 1831. Wellcome Collection.21 Apr 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzfs5suoq2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mjmtha4sgh2bIn SEL's 64.1, Delucia reads antiabortion feminists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to understand and examine their uncritical adoption of Wollstonecraft’s words into their modern contexts. Find the full article on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/98366216 Apr 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmtha4sgh2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mjhtddi6gn2oIn SEL's latest issue, Peh places queer antisociality and disability studies’ “crip time” together in order to understand “the ruining effects of reproduction” in Hutchinson’s poetry. Image: Mater Dolorosa (Mourning Mother), 1776. George Romney The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund14 Apr 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhtddi6gn2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mj5skqn7ke2xIt's a Victorian Studies weekend!! We hope you have a great time at NVSA and MVSA. A huge thank you to the organizers of each of these conferences for all of your hard work. SEL is proud to support @mvsa.bsky.social. We're excited for everyone's work! #MVSA2026 #NVSA202610 Apr 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5skqn7ke2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mj3a7qfhbl22We wish everyone a great ASECS 2026! Thank you to the organizers @asecsoffice.bsky.social for all of your incredible work! We look forward to everyone's work!09 Apr 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3a7qfhbl22https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mitosse5772hWho doesn't love a good travel post? Check out the latest essay from our partner publication, Marginalia. Landry Wood visits Archer City, home of novelist and Rice alumnus Larry McMurtry and documents his trip to Booked Up, a bookstore once own by McMurtry. https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/2026/03/24/a-memorial-pilgrimage-to-archer-city-by-landry-wood/06 Apr 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitosse5772hhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mih4h7nott2xHappy #SHAX2026 to all! Thanks to the organizers @saaupdates.bsky.social for all of your hard work organizing the conference. We're excited for everyone's work!!01 Apr 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mih4h7nott2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mielylhida2qHave you checked out SEL's inaugural installment of The Exchange? Our first conversation, between Susan Fraimon and Gayle Salamon is featured in our 64.1 Winter 2026 issue. Read the full conversation on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/98366631 Mar 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mielylhida2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mi2glhx52l2qIn SEL's latest issue, Brataas attends to Cavendish’s imagined future in which women’s potential is decoupled from reproduction. Brataas argues that Cavendish "envisioned ways in which Nature might allow for alternatives through concepts of extracorporeal reproduction." muse.jhu.edu/article/98365827 Mar 2026 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2glhx52l2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mhvqlfbizf27In SEL 64.1, Chambers and Lesley argue that there is a pervasive “abortive poetics of tragedy” in early modern English dramas. Image: Hogarth, William. A Night Scene with Tom Nero Apprehended in a Church-Yard before the Murdered Body of a Pregnant Maidservant. 1 February 1751. JSTOR.25 Mar 2026 18:42 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvqlfbizf27https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mhdvxd433z27Looking for a home journal for your article? SEL is currently accepting original scholarly essay submissions for our upcoming issues. We welcome scholars at any career stage. If you want to submit your work to SEL head over to our website sel.rice.edu/open-cfps to learn more! #callforpapers18 Mar 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhdvxd433z27https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mh6vsr7aek27In SEL's 64.1 issue, Meek's thematic review assesses recent studies in reproduction and sexuality. Meek finds that the texts in her review reveal how in 1500-1900 "writers reimagined the notion of reproduction to include the creation not merely of human offspring...16 Mar 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6vsr7aek27https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mgsdicbecv2u In SEL's 64.1, Cardelli reads Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and Raleigh’s “Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” to understand the connections between “reproduction and environmental plenitude” (p. 43). Image: Sleeping Shepherds, 1663. Adriaen van de Velde. The Cleveland Museum of Art.11 Mar 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgsdicbecv2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mgndkx36hr27In SEL's latest issue, Sheldon’s article centers readings of the Black abolitionist Robert Wedderburn, particularly his 1824 The Horrors of Slavery, to “historicize the family as an organ for the extraction of value under plantation slavery.” Read now on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/98366309 Mar 2026 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgndkx36hr27https://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mgaumylj2u2xIn SEL 64.1, Miller’s article discusses flowers that resist being useful for reproduction in Victorian poetry. Miller argues that such a depiction of “unproductive flowering challenges the anthropocentric, agricultural value system that underwrites the reproductive imperative.”04 Mar 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgaumylj2u2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mg3toewznu2dIn SEL's latest issue, McCall's article reads The Fortunate Transport to analyze mid-eighteenth-century connections between labor and race. McCall contends “The novel’s many reproducing women help us situate gendered labor at the heart of eighteenth-century geopolitical and fictional worldbuilding.”02 Mar 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3toewznu2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mfuafo5e542kSEL makes the best conference-traveling companion! Check out our latest winter issue (64.1) on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/issue/5644827 Feb 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfuafo5e542khttps://bsky.app/profile/sel1500to1900.bsky.social/post/3mfpba5gmkf2c🚨 New Issue Alert! SEL is pleased to announce our latest issue Winter 2026 (64.1) is now available. A huge thank you to our guest editors Ashley Miller, Doreen Thierauf, and Livia Arndal Woods! Read now on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/journal/178 and stay tuned for more updates on content!25 Feb 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:tk7dbxrdvb6jntfraaiastsa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpba5gmkf2c