What is Literature Compass?
Unique in both range and approach, Literature Compass publishes peer-reviewed articles on the most important research and current thinking from across the entire discipline.
Literature Compass features a new kind of core content: articles on the state-of-the-field or sub-field foreground important trends while viewpoint articles challenge the received wisdom. Generating a strong sense of dialogue and engagement, of research with a public face, Literature Compass gives desktop access to the driving ideas, current issues and controversies that enliven the discipline and fuel literary research. It provides a critical platform for the scholar and an ideal entry point for the non-specialist.
ISSN: 1741-4113
Literature Compass provides…
- A new kind of core content: articles on the state-of-the-field or sub-field discuss the major topics, issues, viewpoints, and controversies within each area of the discipline.
- Coverage of the entire field highlighting connections across sub-fields
- Reference-linked bibliographies for each article, providing the ideal entry point into specialist literature
- Teaching Guides from article authors to inspire and engage your students
- 100 new authoritative, peer-reviewed articles per year: 3 times more than a standard journal
- Fast continuous publication: articles typically available 6-8 weeks after acceptance and published as soon as they are ready, rather than waiting for the next issue
- Literature Compass blog, a complementary forum for debate and information sharing across the discipline.
How to Contribute to Literature Compass
Articles for Literature Compass are commissioned by the Section Editors, but we would be delighted to hear your suggestions and ideas for topics. If you have an idea for an article that you would like to read, or would like to write yourself, you can contact the relevant Section Editor (check the profile page for an email address) or email: LICOeditorial@wiley.com
For more detailed submission instructions and instructions for already commissioned authors click here.
Testimonials
"The Literature Compass Journal features essays by some of the discipline's most prominent scholars—Jerome McGann, Joseph Bristow, Lyn Pykett, Florence Boos—yet also opens space for the innovative work of emergent scholars. Because production of articles is swift, the journal's refereed publications are especially timely. And because the characteristic tone of articles is lively, engaged, and provocative, the journal can be read both for instruction and delight."
Texas Christian University, U.S.A.
"Literature Compass is an extraordinarily useful tool for both my teaching and my research. The site contains excellent articles that are also often quite creative in their approaches as well as more specialized material for the experienced critic. Before beginning a project or teaching a particular subject, I always check Literature Compass first, and invariably find ideas and approaches I had not previously considered. I could not recommend it highly enough. As Henry Kissinger once said, this has the added advantage of being true."
San Diego State University, USA
"I'm thrilled to be able to access so much good writing on subjects that I am passionate about, and keep up with current trends which will help me find direction in my own studies."
Swinburne University, Australia
"Literature Compass really makes good use of the digital medium, providing a very accessible resource, which is supported by substantial and useful articles… it is a thoroughly well-structured site, which offers easy access to insightful articles that offer thought-provoking accounts of the present state of literary scholarship."
Cardiff University, UK
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