Resources for American Literary Study (RALS), a journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2024 issues. Covering all periods of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. 

Submissions range in length and approach. Recent issues include studies of the critical landscape surrounding Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Gertrude Stein; unpublished fiction by Louisa May Alcott; an annotated bibliography of immigrant farm novels; a digital humanities forum charting text selections in anthologies; an unpublished play about the Salem Witch Trials by William Carlos Williams; uncollected writings by Paul Laurence Dunbar; an examination of the Alice Hoffman archive; and an overview of Henry James's changing reputation in the newspapers of his day. Issues are available in print and through at https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/rals

Instructions for submissions may be found @ http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_rals.html. 

Please direct any inquiries to Co-Editors Nancy Sweet (nsweet@csus.edu) and Paul Thifault (ethifault@springfieldcollege.edu).

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