Victorian Literature and Culture seeks to publish cutting-edge scholarship of broad interest to the field, including work that challenges or interrogates the boundaries of the field itself. We are open to experiments in genre and form and welcome queries about the suitability of particular submissions.

All manuscripts should be double-spaced and should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, with abbreviated footnote citations and a bibliography.

• Essay manuscripts should be between 7,000 and 12,000 words. (Word length for book reviews, Defamiliarizations, etc., should be worked out in advance with the editors.) All essay submissions should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words.
• For blind reading purposes, the author’s name, affiliation, contact information, and competing interests declaration should appear nowhere on the submission; they should be included only in the submission email and/or Title Page.
• We welcome all submissions to our ScholarOne Manuscripts website at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vlc. Submissions should be sent as Word documents