The New Centennial Review seeks submissions for a forthcoming special issue that aims to offer new perspectives on American literary naturalism in the context of global transformations from the nineteenth century to the present. Of particular interest are rereadings of canonical texts as well as less frequently discussed authors in comparative, transatlantic, postcolonial, and hemispheric approaches. Especially welcome are theoretically inflected essays that offer novel, provocative definitions of the genre as it has developed from the mid and late nineteenth century to the present.
Please send short bios and proposals of 300–500 words. Essays of 9,000 words will be due by December 2019 for publication in spring 2021.