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New Literary History is a quarterly academic journal focused on the history and theory of literature and key questions of interpretation. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, it covers hermeneutics, the reading process, literary change, and the relation between linguistics and literature.
Ralph Cohen founded New Literary History in 1969 as part of the Sesquicentennial Celebration of the University of Virginia. He served as editor from the journal's founding through 2008.
New Literary History became the first English-language literary journal to be translated into Chinese in 1999. A selection of essays has been translated and published annually by Tsinghua University Press in Beijing since 2001.
New Literary History has received six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
Ralph Cohen edited New Literary History from its founding in 1969 through 2008. He was succeeded by Rita Felski, and Bruce Holsinger of the University of Virginia later became editor.
New Literary History helped introduce British and American scholars to methodologies and theoretical approaches from continental Europe. The journal was characterized as an attempt to bring Anglo-American criticism into a close interrelationship with Continental approaches to literature and culture.