Editor's Note

Call for Submissions

Early American Literature: Special Issue "On Loyalty"

This special issue of Early American Literature seeks submissions exploring the diverse and dynamic cultures of loyalty and modes of affiliation in British North America and the Atlantic world. To what extent does renewed attention to the British American Loyalists also call for further exploration of the many contexts and occasions for the rubric of "loyalty" in British America during the long eighteenth century? We are interested in essays dealing not only with the political thought and literature of the American Revolution but also with scholarship on questions of deference, affiliation, social relations, and local cultures. "Loyalty" writ large might include some of the following topics and relevant themes:

• • Monarchy in early American literary history, especially in the long eighteenth century

• • Political and philosophical backgrounds and contexts for loyalty

• • Subaltern views of British monarchy

• • Declarations of loyalty, royalist rhetoric, fealty to the king

• • The social life of British Loyalists

• • British subjectivity and performance

• • Migration and diaspora

• • Loyalty and the aesthetics of affiliation

• • Legacies of Loyalism and monarchical culture in the post-Revolutionary era

• • Nonnational loyalties in the new US nation

Inquiries and submissions may be sent to guest editors John Garcia (jgar@berkeley.edu) and Philip Gould (philip_gould@brown.edu). The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2013. The essays will be peer reviewed, with a projected publication date of early 2015.

Two projects on Charles Brockden Brown have earned recognition for their scholarly significance. The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant of $200,000 in support of "Creating the Charles Brockden Brown Archive," to Mark Kamrath, principal investigator, and Rudy McDaniel, co-principal investigator, with Philip Barnard serving as textual editor. The project plans to complete integration of primary and secondary bibliographies into an up-to-date interface; to implement 8,083 JPEG images into 972 corresponding TEI-encoded texts; and to enhance bibliographical and full-text metadata with NINES, a digital aggregator tool. When completed, single-portal access to all of these materials will be free to the public. The MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE) awarded the CSE seal to volume 1 of Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown, Letters and Early Epistolary Writings. Philip Barnard, Elizabeth Hewitt, and Mark L. Kamrath edited the volume, and John R. Holmes and Fritz Fleischmann acted as consulting editors. The volume will be published by Bucknell University Press. Congratulations to all the parties involved in these important projects.

Mason Lowance, the first managing editor of Early American Literature, has sent a warm tribute to four colleagues who have died in recent years: Everett Emerson, Alan Heimert, Leo LeMay, and Emory Elliott. Lowance writes, "Each has contributed so very much to our profession and to our collegiality that a mere recitation of their accomplishments does not justly summarize their collective achievement. . . . The torch may have passed, as they say, but to these four in particular a huge debt of gratitude is owed by those who follow." Hear, hear.

This is the time of year for farewells and new beginnings. With this issue, we say goodbye to Stephanie Straub, our editorial assistant for book reviews since Marion Rust began editing that section in 2011, and to Jessica Hughes, the general editorial assistant working with Sandra Gustafson. As authors know and readers might guess, Stephanie and Jessica have been crucial to what we have accomplished. Jessica is advancing in the PhD program at the University of Notre Dame, with a focus on Victorian literature. Stephanie leaves to pursue graduate work: first in Scotland, where she will obtain a master's in literature and modernity at the University of Edinburgh; and then as part of Vanderbilt University's PhD program in English. Ashleigh Lovelace takes over Stephanie's position with similarly stellar qualifications. A recipient of the prestigious Gaines Fellowship at the University of Kentucky, she is a triple major in English, art history, and arts administration. She also has worked with the Kentucky Women Writers Conference and the University Press of Kentucky. Garrett Seelinger, a recent addition to Notre Dame's PhD program with a focus on transatlantic eighteenth-century studies...