Early American Literature

Academic journal

*Early American Literature*
Publication details

Discipline	American literature
Language	English
Edited by	Marion Rust
Former name(s)	Early American Literature Newsletter
History	1966–present
Publisher	University of North Carolina Press on behalf of the Society of Early Americanists and the Forum on Early American Literature of the Modern Language Association (United States)
Frequency	Triannual
Impact factor	0.3 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Early Am. Lit.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0012-8163 (print) 1534-147X (web)
LCCN	sf77000022
JSTOR	00128163
OCLC no.	3141118
Links
Journal homepage Journal at the University of North Carolina Press Access at Project MUSE

Early American Literature is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of North Carolina Press on behalf of the Society of Early Americanists and the Forum on Early American Literature of the Modern Language Association, covering on the study of early American literature (before about 1830), including Native American and French, British, Dutch, German, and Spanish colonial writing.^[1] It was established in 1966 as the Early American Literature Newsletter, obtaining its current title in 1968.^[2] The editor-in-chief is Marion Rust (University of Kentucky).^[1]

Richard Beale Davis Prize

In 1983, the journal began awarding the Richard Beale Davis Prize, named after a prominent scholar of Southern literature and culture. It is awarded to the best article published within the journal each year.^[3]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

Arts and Humanities Citation Index^[4]
ATLA Religion Database^[5]
Current Contents/Arts & Humanities^[4]
EBSCO databases^[6]
International Bibliography of Periodical Literature^[6]
Modern Language Association Database^[6]
Scopus^[7]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 0.3.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b "Home". Early American Literature. University of Kentucky. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
^ "Early American Literature on JSTOR". JSTOR. University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
^ Emerson, Everett (1983). "Some Words about the Past, the Present, the Future". Early American Literature. 18 (2): 218. JSTOR 25056516.
^ ^a ^b "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
^ "Title and Product Update Lists". ATLA Religion Database. American Theological Library Association. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Early American Literature". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
^ "Source details: Early American Literature". Scopus Preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
^ "Early American Literature". 2022 Journal Citation Reports (Arts and Humanities ed.). Clarivate. 2023 – via Web of Science.