Department of English
ESQ
ESQ is devoted to the study of nineteenth-century American literature. We invite submission of original articles, welcome work grounded in a wide range of theoretical and critical perspectives, and encourage inquiries proposing submissions and projects. Please contact us with comments and queries.
Current Issue:
“Something within the Silent Black Man Answered No!“; or, Is Bartleby Uncle Tom on Wall Street?
Laura Korobkin
“The Sense of Liberty”: Rethinking Liberalism and Sentimentality in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Antislavery Fiction
Scott M. Reznick
“Not the Abstract Question of Democracy”: The Social Ground of Whitman’s “Lilacs”
Tobias Huttner
Whitman’s Eugenic Sustainability
Abby L. Goode