modern-language-quarterly
Use when targeting Modern Language Quarterly (MLQ) or deciding whether a literary-history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's literary-history fit, the historically grounded argument bar, periodization and change-over-time expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill modern-language-quarterly --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Modern Language Quarterly (modern-language-quarterly) ## Journal positioning Modern Language Quarterly, published by Duke University Press, is a journal of literary history — it asks how literature changes over time and how those changes are best understood. Its defining expectation is a **historically grounded argument about literary change**: the emergence or transformation of a genre, form, mode, period, or tradition, demonstrated through evidence and situated in the history of the discipline's debates about periodization and historical method. A purely formalist reading detached from historical change, or a theory-application piece indifferent to literary history, is a poor fit. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** aid. It does not replace the journal's current submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live MLQ author instructions. ## When to trigger - The author names MLQ for a literary-history essay and wants a fit/framing check. - A reading must be re-framed as an argument about change over time — how a form, genre, or period came to be. - The author is choosing between MLQ and a theory-led, new-historicist, or broad-readership venue. - The a
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the modern-language-quarterly skill do?
Use when targeting Modern Language Quarterly (MLQ) or deciding whether a literary-history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's literary-history fit, the historically grounded argument bar, periodization and change-over-time expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill modern-language-quarterly --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.