The Southern Quarterly

The Southern Quarterly was originally published in 2000 by the University of Southern Mississippi. It has different subjects throughout its various different issues, including subjects such as: aspects of the Southern United States, United States history, and American Literature. In the description of the article itself, it analyzes Southern culture through literature, folklore, anthropology, and history (ebsco host). For example, one of the earlier articles that this journal publishes was titled “Negotiating boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers that Be” (Petry). This journal is still publishing its collection of articles to this day, with it publishes by season. So, it has Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter issues. This journal is located at the University of Southern Mississippi still, and has recently published its Winter 2019 journal. This journal can be very useful for English majors because it shows insight into how Southern culture works and how it has developed over time. It can also show a large degree of how Southern writers produce their material, and how the way that they write can vary from other writers in different parts of the United States. For example, one article that is published is titled “Culture and Ideology: The Gothic Revival in the Backlot of Antebellum Charleston” (Ellis et al.,). This just shows how this article not only reflects the culture in the South, but also the different methods in which it is written with.

With this journal, there are specific criteria that one must follow in order to be able to have their work published in this article. You must have an article that is based on solid documentation, that is seated in literary or critical theory, and that make and original and important contribution to the study of the American South. Articles are not allowed to exceed twenty to twenty-five double-spaced pages in length, along with all of the sources and documentation (The Southern Quarterly). These are the basic guidelines, and as the articles are submitted, they must go through the editorial board. It also states that if you are submitting something and it does not get published, then it becomes the property of The Southern Quarterly. The editorial board consists of many people, with the main editor being Kate Cochran. This journal’s main focus is to shine a light on what Southern culture is, was, and what is projected to happen in the South in the future. This journal is currently calling for people to submit their own original articles for the Spring/Summer of 2020, the Fall of 2020, and the Winter of 2021. These articles must go along with the pre-selected theme of each seasonal publication, and must make sense to the topic that is shown.

While this journal looks into the different issues and topics in the South, its articles range widely from publication to publication. In the Fall of 2015, for example, the articles focused mainly on death. There was one article in this particular publication titled “Pleading with Death: Folk Visions of Death (and Life) in the New South” (Hayes). This article explores the new looks into the various ways that the South perceives myths about death, and how they cope with it in today’s world and society. In another article stemming from the same published issue, titled as “Lay It All on the Table: Death in the American South,” this article touches on how older traditions around death flow into the new age (Smith). This article focused on touching on how old traditions correlate still with newer traditions in the South, and can still be seen in morphed ways. In another issue that was published in 2003, however, the articles were centered on a person rather than an idea. This particular issue focused on Richard Marius. They ranged from an analysis of the man himself, to a glimpse and discussion about how he lived his life. One of the works written about him, titled “Re-visioning the overland trail: Richard Marius’s bound for the promised land,” covers the analysis of Marius’s specific works and looks into how they can be interpreted (Carroll). But the attitudes of these articles do change, with each one being unique on its own outlook of Marius and his life and works. In another article, “Neither Saint nor Sinner: An Analysis of Richard Marius as a Biographer of Thomas Moore,” this article goes into the ways at which Marius wrote about the life of another writer (Bowman). Whereas one article was an analysis and break down of Marius’s works, this article was more of a critique.

Overall, The Southern Quarterly looks to delve into the many different aspects of the South, in many different terms. This journal can be very beneficial to English majors who are looking for information, writings, or specific analyses over the different parts of the South, and how they contribute to literature today. This journal solely looks at the different types of Southern literature and history, and tries to bring it to a more modern groups of people. This journal can be accessed by many databases and libraries, and can also be obtained with a subscription, which costs a fee. Overall, this journal is beneficial because it gives readers a newfound look into Southern culture and shines a light that might melt away all of the stigmas that the South faces today.

Works Cited

Bowman, Glen. “Neither Saint nor Sinner: An Analysis of Richard Marius as Biographer of                     Thomas More.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, 2003, pp. 78-91. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222245383?accountid=28833.

Carroll, Viera. “Re-Visioning the Overland Trail: Richard Marius’s Bound for the Promised         Land.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, 2003, pp. 52-67. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222260514?accountid=28833

“Details for The Southern Quarterly,” EBSCOhost, EBSCO Industries, 2019.             http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/ehost/command/detail?vid=0&sid=08a3b4c8-c571-4c24-993b-          1657436eff03%40sessionmgr4006&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#jid=4LD&db=hft

Ellis, Clifton; Haney, Gina. “Visual Culture and Ideology: The Gothic Revival in the Backlot of Antebellum Charleston.” ProQuest, Vol. 44, Iss. 4, (Summer 2007), https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222264458/95B6382524E74A63PQ/4?accountid=28833

Hayes, John. “Pleading with Death: Folk Visions of Death (and Life) in the New   South.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 1, 2015, pp. 105-120,262. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/1759326149?accountid=28833.

O’Hara, Shelley. What Can You Do with a Major in English? Cliffs Notes, 2005. Web.                

Petry, Alice Hall. “Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers    that Be.” ProQuest, Vol. 41, Iss. 1, (Fall 2002),  https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222268517/EB22E707FED450DPQ/13?accountid=28833

Smith, Abigail L. “Lay it all on the Table: Death in the American South.” Southern Quarterly,     vol. 53, no. 1, 2015, pp. 72-86,263. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/1759326056?accountid=28833.

“The Southern Quarterly.” The Southern Quarterly | The University of Southern Mississippi,        University of Southern Mississippi , https://aquila.usm.edu/soq/

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College Literature

Many college professors might be searching for the perfect resource to learn new material, or a different view through various lenses. As time goes on, scholars begin to look at different works through various lens that are fueled by things happening throughout time, and knowledge from other scholars. A fantastic place to find reliable research, and information, is the academic journal, College Literature. It’s published by John Hopkins University Press from 1974- present. It is published in a series of quarterly magazines that breaks down different works from authors, both past and present, and brings a fresh look to those various works.  Throughout its articles scholar’s breakdown different works from authors, and begin to process them in different ways. The works chosen to be broken apart vary, but can be anything from works of poetry in the 19^thcentury, analyzing the Odyssey in a new light, or many current works that have been published in the 21^stcentury. With the variety in topics covered it makes finding useful information about works easily accessible for scholars. 

Due to the large amount of literature that is covered in the collegiate setting, this magazine covers a wide variety of things. One of the topics covered is literary theory and criticism. Articles such as “From many million heart-throbs”: Walt Whitman’s Communitarian Sentimentalisms” (Schöberlein), and “Entropic imagination in Poe’s The masque of the red death.” (Zapf). It covers current topics on American literature today such as: “Order Out of Chaos: Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Thomas Dixon”, Jr (Ruiz- Velasco), and “The Power to Undo Sin: Race, History and Literary Blackness in Rilla Askew’s “Fire in Beulah” (Hada). It has some articles that look at older American literature through new lens such as: “Black Objects: Animation and Objectification in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales” (Lam), and “Frankenstein, Paradise Lost, and “the majesty of goodness”(Ping). Some other topics discussed in this journal are third word literature, European literature, and many other branches of literature taught in classrooms around the world. This journal captures interesting topics from all over the world, and throughout time for scholars to be able to utilize. This journal can be used as a vital resource for anyone who wants to learn more about various literature. 

 One thing that makes this resource valuable for scholars is that all the articles are peer reviewed. Over the past 40 plus years the editors, and the editor boards, for the magazine have changed, however, the current editor is Carolyn Sorisio, West Chester University. Sorisio has a Ph.D. from Temple University, and is currently a professor at West Chester University.  She specializes in 19^th century American Literature with an emphasis on gender and race. Sorisio has several published articles in various academic magazines, and continues to do research along with teaching various literature classes. She also won various awards for her writing which include, 2015 Susan Koppleman Award from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. She won that prize for “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Campaign for American Indian Rights” [coedited with Cari M. Carpenter (Univ. of Nebraska P, 2015). Associate editors, review editors, and various other editors are professors who are actively continuing their research, and are well established researchers in their own right. 

Tennessee Tech students have access to this journal through the libraries various databases. Issues from 1999 to 2019 are able to be viewed by current students and faculty are housed in the EBSCOhost data base. Other data bases carry articles as well, but EBSCOhost houses the largest variety of the articles. Some articles are able to be viewed on the publisher’s website, but usually it is only two articles per edition. The best way to view the information is to subscribe to the magazine, or have access through the school database. 

 Work Cited

“College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies | JHU Press.

“English.” Carolyn Sorisio – West Chester University, 2018.

Hada, Kenneth. “The Power to Undo Sin: Race, History and Literary Blackness in Rilla Askew’s ‘Fire in Beulah’.” College Literature, vol. 34, no. 4, 2007.

Lam, Joshua. “Black Objects: Animation and Objectification in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales.” College Literature, vol. 34, no. 4, 2018.

Ping, Tang Soo. “Frankstein, Paradise Lost, and ‘the Majesty of Goodness’.Ta.” College Literature, vol. 16, no. 3, 1989.

Ruiz-Velasco, Chris. “Order Out of Chaos: Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Thomas Dixon, Jr.” College Literature, vol. 34, no. 4, 2007.

Schöberlein, Stefan. “‘From Many Million Heart-Throbs’: Walt Whitman’s Communitarian Sentimentalisms.” College Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, 2018.

Zapf, Hubert. “Entropic Imagination in Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death.” College Literature, vol. 16, no. 3, 1989.

Renaissance Drama

Renaissance Drama was first published in 1956 under University of Chicago Press. The journal’s goal is to investigate the significance of Renaissance drama by examining interpretations of plays, theater, and performance. There’s a new volume out every year, and it circulates about five hundred of them. In order to be featured in the journal, the suggested length of an article is 6,000-12,000 words, the editing style must be Chicago, and have to submit at least three copies. 

In Volume VIII, which was published in 1965, one of the articles included was “The Wit-Interludes and the Form of Pre-Shakespearan: Romantic Comedy” by Werner Habicht. He explores contrasts of morality and love that were featured in plays before Shakespeare came into the scene. Habicht speaks of situations that revolve around moral play, “temptation, deneration, repentance, regeneration,” (Habicht pg. 79). Habicht goes on to explain how these are typically dramatized as an archetype of morality. In the same volume, there was an article called “Forms and Functions of the Play within a Play” by Dieter Mehl. In his article, he discusses how the actors on stage are having to perform separately of their characters at some points in a play. An example he gave was how sometimes an actor on stage would divulge from the play to provide comic relief after a heavily serious scene. 

In Volume XXVII, which was published in 1996, an article included was “Elizabeth Cary and Edward II: What Do Women Want to Write?” by Meredith Skura. Her article focused more on Elizabeth Cary and her part in with History. She speaks of the claim that Cary actually wrote History instead of Falkland. Another article was “Corneille’s City Comedy: Courtship and Consumption in Early Modern Paris” By Karen Newman. In Newman’s article, she discusses Corneille’s comedies as well as how courtship was portrayed in plays. Newman speaks of how women were always portrayed as “the object of a lover’s passion.”

In Volume XL, published in 2012, it featured an article called “Recent Trends in Editing of Renaissance Drama Anthologies” by David Bevington. He discussed the anthology of Renaissance drama in England and how it had begun. Bevington discusses how Renaissance drama was introduced to more people because of this journal, and how in the earlier versions it was typically filled with similar articles. The last article was “Defining the Proper Members of the Renaissance Theatrical Community” by Mary Bly. Her article was about how playwrights would tend to “borrow” ideas during the sixteenth and seventeenth century including Shakespeare. 

The Renaissance Drama journal has changed over the years by including more topics that fall under Renaissance drama. When the journal first started out, the articles included were always about Pre-Shakespeare and plenty of the same playwrights. Whereas now, the journal includes discussions over ideas and topics that were seen in plays as well as discussions about a female playwright. This journal includes a great deal of articles about Renaissance drama that anyone wanting to learn more or a student has to write a paper over Renaissance drama they can find useful information in it. If a student writes a paper over Renaissance drama, they can easily access this journal by going to the campus library and checking the journal out. 

Works Cited

Bevington, David. “Recent Trends in Editing of Renaissance Drama Anthologies”. Renaissance Drama New Series 40 edited by Jeffrey Masten and William N. West. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2012. 

Bly, Mary.“Defining the Proper Members of the Renaissance Theatrical Community”. Renaissance Drama New Series 40 edited by Jeffrey Masten and William N. West. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2012. 

Habicht, Werner. “The Wit-Interludes and the Form of Pre-Shakespearan: Romantic Comedy”. Renaissance Drama Volume VIII edited by S. Schoenbaum. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1965. 

Mehl, Dieter. “Forms and Functions of the Play within a Play”. Renaissance Drama Volume VIII edited by S. Schoenbaum. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1965. 

Newman, Karen. “Corneille’s City Comedy: Courtship and Consumption in Early Modern Paris”. Renaissance Drama Volume XXVII edited by Mary Beth Rose. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1998. 

Skura, Meredith. “Elizabeth Cary and Edward II: What Do Women Want to Write?”. Renaissance Drama Volume XXVII edited by Mary Beth Rose. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1998. 

Young Scholars in Writing

Young Scholars in Writing, abbreviated YSW, is an academic journal that only publishes undergraduate writers. The essays, written by undergraduates, do not have a specific focus, but instead have a wide variety of topics. Their main subjects focus on rhetoric and composition, writing, literacy, linguistics, pedagogy, and cultural studies. It is an annual journal that began in 2003, published by the University of Missouri’s College of Arts and Sciences. The main editor is Doug Downs, but they have large editorial and peer review boards along with the main editor. The peer review board has only undergraduates from Montana State University while the editorial board has members from many different colleges and universities. The journal does not give an editorial board for each volume. Instead, they have one page on their website that lists the editorial board in full.

There are sixty-four articles submitted per year, but only seven of those sixty-four are published which is roughly an eleven percent acceptance rate. The articles are suggested to be ten to twenty-five pages in length with the only requirement that it is authored by an undergraduate student with a preferred MLA style editing. The journal does not include  book reviews or short notes, and there is no charge for submission or pages. It is also actively indexed and peer reviewed. The earlier volumes seem to mostly focus on politics and writing and how it goes with different subjects. The very early volumes do not include abstracts of each article like the more recent articles do, but all of the articles give a biography of the authors which basically describes their position in college- where they were at in their college careers when they wrote the articles and what they are doing after the article is published. 

While the earlier volumes do not contain abstracts, the titles give clear enough descriptions of what the author is writing about in order for a reader to know what they will be reading in the article. For example, while looking through the articles of volume three, a reader can tell exactly what Amanda Marshall will be writing about in her article “Rhetoric of Anorexia: Eating as a Metaphor for Living,” or what Rebecca Feldmann will be discussing in her article “Discovering the Truth: The Operation of Ethos in Anti-Smoking Advertisements.” While those two articles focus on writing in different aspects, articles like “Feminist Figures or Damsels in Distress? The Media’s Gendered Misrepresentation of Disney Princesses,” by Isabelle Gill, focus on a more political topic. The journal even includes topics on religion. One example being Natalie Selah’s article “Crafting Theology: Toward a Theory of Literacy Smiths.” Another example of religion in this journal is Madeline J. Crozier’s article “The Melting Pot as a God-Term.” There are also articles that focus on specific time periods, articles like “American Womanhood and The New Woman: A Rhetorical Consideration of the Development and Circulation of Female Stereotypes, 1890-1920” by Rachel Lynn Stroup. Staring in 2010, they had a section dedicated to showcase first-year writers along with other articles that have the normal variety of students. The wide variety of subjects within the articles of the journal would attract readers of all disciplines to read the journal.

For students that attend Tennessee Tech, the journal can be accessed through the library’s website. The link for the full text option allows students to access all volumes of the journal and all of the articles within each volume. For anyone else looking to read this journal, a simple Google search will take you to the Montana State University website where they house all volumes, and articles within each volume, in the archives tab. This journal is very useful for all undergraduates that would want a paper published in a journal,and  it could also be useful to a range of students, or curious readers, if they are interested in any of the topics that are being published. 

Works Cited 

Crozier, Madeline. “The Melting Pot as a God-Term.” Young Scholars in Writing. Vol. 16, 2019. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/article/view/1296. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

Feldmann, Rebecca. “Discovering the Truth: The Operation of Ethos in Anti-Smoking Advertisements.” Young Scholars in Writing. Vol. 3, 2005. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/article/view/94. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

Gill, Isabelle. “Feminist Figures or Damsels in Distress? The Media’s Gendered Misrepresentation of Disney Princesses.” Young Scholars in Writing. Vol. 13, 2016. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/article/view/330. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

Marshall, Amanda. “Rhetoric of Anorexia: Eating as a Metaphor for Living.” Young Scholars in Writing. Vol. 3, 2005. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/article/view/95. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

Selah, Natalie. “Crafting Theology: Toward a Theory of Literary Smiths.” Young Scholars in Writing. Vol. 13, 2016. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/article/view/327. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

Stroup, Rachel. “American Womanhood and The New Woman: A Rhetorical Consideration of the Development and Circulation of Female Stereotypes, 1890-1920.” Young Scholars in Writing. Vol. 16, 2019. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/article/view/1089. Accessed 11 October 2019. 

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Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Rhetoric and Writing. University of Missouri, 2019. https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/issue/archive. Accessed 11 October 2019.