"The Scholarly Journal and Pressures Imposed by the Crisis in Academic Book Publication"
Academic book lists are being pared down drastically in some fields of literary and cultural studies scholarship. Specialists in those areas find themselves with a shrinking potential for print publication, and turn to academic journals. What do editors do, particularly when the ambit of their journal's coverage is broad, when scholars in fields adjacent to one's subject begin flooding the mailbox with submissions? What are the responsibilities to young scholars in one's discipline, when space is sought by scholars from another—particularly when the number of tenure-track persons in one's area has ballooned?
David S. Shields, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia
