new-literary-history
Use when targeting New Literary History or deciding whether an essay on the theory, history, and method of literary study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's theory-of-literature fit, the conceptual-question bar, methodological-reflexivity 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 new-literary-history --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.
# New Literary History (new-literary-history) ## Journal positioning New Literary History, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, is devoted to theory and interpretation — to questions about the nature, method, and history of literary study rather than to readings for their own sake. Its defining expectation is an essay that **asks a genuine theoretical or methodological question**: what literature is, how it means, why we read it as we do, how categories like period, genre, value, or interpretation are constituted and might be rethought. A close reading without a conceptual question behind it, or a survey of a critical school, is a poor fit; the journal wants reflection that reorients how the discipline thinks. 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 New Literary History author instructions. ## When to trigger - The author names New Literary History for an essay on literary theory, method, or history and wants a fit/framing check. - A reading-driven piece must be re-framed around the theoretical or methodological question it implicitly raises. - The autho
- 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 new-literary-history skill do?
Use when targeting New Literary History or deciding whether an essay on the theory, history, and method of literary study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's theory-of-literature fit, the conceptual-question bar, methodological-reflexivity 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 new-literary-history --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.