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New Literary History focuses on questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history. It welcomes contributions from a wide range of intellectual perspectives. The distinctiveness of NLH lies in its commitment to scrutinizing the principles and procedures of interpretation, to rethinking theory and method, and to reassessing the current buzz-words and by-words of scholarly argument.

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Anticipatory Plagiarism

by Pierre Bayard and Jeffrey Mehlman from Vol 44, Issue 2, 2013

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2023 Ralph Cohen Prize Winners Announced

Warm congratulations to Lindsay Stern and Nasrin Olla, co-recipients of the 2023 Ralph Cohen Prize from New Literary History. Named for the founding editor of New Literary History, the annual Ralph Cohen Prize recognizes distinguished work by early career scholars…
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