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NOVEL was founded at Brown University in the Fall of 1967 by Senior Editor Edward Bloom and Managing Editors Park Honan and Mark Spilka. Its original advisory board included Wayne Booth, Paul De Man, Peter Demetz, Henri Peyre, and Ian Watt, among others, and contributors to the first issue include Malcolm Bradbury, Leslie Fiedler, Samuel Hynes, and Bruce Morrissette. In the inaugural issue, the editors published a mission statement for the journal:
From its earliest years, NOVEL sought to promote groundbreaking new approaches to the study of the novel and to inaugurate new theoretical and critical discourses about fiction, publishing the work of such scholars and critics as Nina Auerbach, Wayne Booth, Jonathan Culler, Leslie Fiedler, Jane Gallop, Gerard Genette, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Wolfgang Iser, Fredric Jameson, Frank Kermode, Joyce Carol Oates, J. Hillis Miller, Edward Said, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Tzvetan Todorov, Ian Watt, and Raymond Williams. In the decades that followed, the journal went on to publish articles by Derek Attridge, Martin C. Battestin, Patrick Brantlinger, John Brenkman, Peter Brooks, Homer O. Brown, Ann Cvetkovich, Nicholas Dames, Madhu Dubey, Ann duCille, Claudia L. Johnson, Peggy Kamuf, John Kucich, Christopher Lane, Jonathan Loesberg, D.A. Miller, Benita Parry, Mary Poovey, Kaja Silverman, Clifford Siskin, and Michael Wood, among numerous others. The original editorial board expressed its commitment to building a critical vocabulary for the study of the novel. Though the vocabulary itself has changed immensely and will continue to change in the years to come, this commitment remains. For more than forty years, NOVEL has been published continuously in the Spring, Summer and Fall of each year. In keeping with the journal's current editorial program, we welcome submissions in a wide variety of areas of research and theory relevant to the novel genre. The editors are particularly interested in articles on the following topics: theories of the novel, the novel in an international context, fictions of nationalism and globalism, narratives of race and ethnicity, the novel and the history of sexuality, fiction and the culture concept, the novel and mass media, fiction and the sciences, agency in or of the novel. Recent and Forthcoming Contributors include: Alexander M. Bain, Baidik Bhattacharya, Scott Black, George E. Boulukos, Timothy Christensen, Rachel Cole, Daniel Cottom, Cathy N. Davidson, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Thomas DiPiero, Jonathan Elmer, Amanda Emerson, Lisa Fluet, Jefferson Gatrall, Debra Gettelman, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Paul Kelleher, Peggy A. Knapp, Sanjay Krishnan, Edward Larkin, Christina Lupton, Ruth Mack, Asha Nadkarni, Jeff Nunokawa, Jason Richards, Bruce Robbins, Naoki Sakai, Michael Sayeau, Jason Solinger, Vivasvan Soni, Daniel Stout, Ezra Tawil, Leonard Tennenhouse, Richard Terdiman, Annette Van, Rebecca Walkowitz, Benjamin Widiss, Eugenia Zuroski |
Advisory BoardRita Barnard |