West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies

Mission and Submission Guidelines

Since 1939, West Virginia History has been the premier source of scholarship and research on the history of the Mountain State. Now published in a new series by the West Virginia University Press, West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies will have two issues a year—in the spring and fall.

WVH publishes peer-reviewed research articles on the political, social, economic, and cultural history of the state and its regional context. It also publishes peer-reviewed articles that employ public history methodologies, which includes but is not limited to documentation of public history projects, material culture analysis, and analyses of public history methodologies within the context of the state and region. The journal also publishes peer-reviewed articles on West Virginia history education. These articles are about 8,000 to 12,000 words in length.

WVH covers the field of history in West Virginia in a section titled: Updates, Reflections, and Issues. This includes essays, interviews, and commentaries on topics of interest in West Virginia scholarship, preservation, museums, archives, education, and organizations. These essays are about 2,500 to 5,000 words.

WVH publishes reviews of books and media, including exhibits, programs, films, television shows, plays, albums, podcasts, and websites, about West Virginia history. Reviews are 500 to 600 words, but review essays can be longer.

Submitting an Article Manuscript

Submit your manuscript to wvhistory@wvupress.com as an e-mail attachment. Hal Gorby and Lou Martin are the co-editors of WVH. Correspondence regarding editorial matters should go to:

Hal Gorby, Co-Editor

West Virginia University

Department of History

220A Woodburn Hall

Morgantown, WV 26506

Email: wvhistory@wvupress.com

The homepage for West Virginia History is https://wvupressonline.com/journals/wv_history.

Please submit your manuscript as a Word file (Times New Roman, 12-point) e-mail attachment. To facilitate our policy of anonymous manuscript review, please go to "Properties" in the document and strip out any identifying information. Do include the title of the submission on the first page. The author's name and address (both postal and e-mail) should appear in a separate Word document, along with a 250-word abstract.

Within the Word file, all lines should be justified at the left margin only and should double-spaced, including quotations and notes. Articles should not exceed 12,000 words in length, including endnotes. Quotations longer than eight lines should be set off from the text by indenting 0.5” but not by single spacing. WVH follows the Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.).

We can accept a limited number of illustrations in either glossy photographs or 300 dpi TIF files. Supply each illustration with a caption, accompanied by a source line and such acknowledgments as are required. Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions in writing before providing them to WVH.

Submitting a Review

Please use the following formats as a header for reviews:
 

Book
To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia. By Chad Montrie. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 245.)

Media

Coal Country, film, written and directed by Phylis Geller, Evening Star Productions, 2009.

The Children of Mother Jones, museum exhibit, curated by Shaun Slifer, West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, 2023.

“Chasing the Moon,” television documentary series, written and directed by Robert Stone, American Experience, PBS, 2019.

“Remembering Floods and Recovering from a Disaster,” produced by Bill Lynch, Inside Appalachia, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, 2023.

Reviews should be double-spaced and between 500–600 words in length. Please submit the review as a Word file (Times New Roman, 12-point) e-mail attachment.

Please include in book reviews a brief summary of its scope, purpose, and content, and an explanation of its significance in the literature on the subject. Include also an evaluation of the author’s use of available sources, organization and presentation of material, and achievement of his or her overall purpose. For media reviews, include a brief summary or description, analysis of its execution, and a discussion of its broader significance. Your evaluations may be favorable or unfavorable, but the review should avoid personal references, should express criticism in a respectful and balanced manner, and should avoid irrelevant digressions. Do not list typographical or other minor errors; mention them only if they significantly impair the value of the book. Please supply page numbers (e.g., 22 or 22–23) for all quoted phrases and passages. If you refer to other books or articles in your review, please provide complete bibliographical information, including the exact page citation. We will copyedit your review prior to publication and will silently correct any errors we might find and edit for clarity and accuracy.
 
Please complete reviews three months from the date you accept the assignment or inform the editor of your need for an extension.

Tolkien Studies seeks works of scholarly quality and depth. Substantial essays and shorter, “Notes and Documents” pieces are both welcome.

Submissions should be double-spaced throughout and use parenthetical citations in the (Author page) form.  A Works Cited page should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed.  All citations to Tolkien’s works should follow the “Conventions and Abbreviations” of Tolkien Studies.

Electronic submissions should be sent to Yvette Kisor (ykisor@ramapo.edu) as attachments. Microsoft Word is the preferred word-processing program. Mailed, hard copy submissions are no longer accepted. 

Tolkien Studies encourages researchers to send us offprints of articles for inclusion in the yearly Bibliography and Year’s Work. These should be sent to:

Tolkien Studies
c/o Prof. Michael Drout
Wheaton College
26 East Main Street
Norton, MA 02766

Editors: Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger
E-ISSN: 1547-3155
ISBN: 978-1-933202-03-7
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Table of Contents

• Richard C. West: "And She Name Her Own Name": Being True to One's Word in Tolkien's Middle-earth
• Douglas A. Anderson: Richard C. West: A Checklist
• Miryam Libran-Moreno: Parallel Lives: The Sons of Denethor and the Sons of Telamon

• Judy Ann Ford, The White City: "The Lord of the Rings" as an Early Medieval Myth of the Restoration of the Roman Empire
• Elizabeth Massa Hoiem: World Creation as Colonization: British Imperialism in "Aldarion and Erendis"
• Margaret Sinex: "Tricksy Lights": Literary and Folkloric Elements in Tolkien's Passage of teh Dead Marshes Patchen Mortimer, Tolkien and Modernism 
• John Wm. Houghton and Neal K. Keesee: Tolkien, King Alfred, and Boethius
• Kristine Larsen: A Definitive Identification of Tolkien's "Borgil": An Astronomical and Literary Approach
• Linda Greenwood: Love: "The Gift of Death"
• Michael J. Brisbois: Tolkien's Imaginary Nature: An Analysis of the Structure of Middle-Earth
• Douglas A. Anderson: Obituary: Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005)

• Beth Russell: The Birthplace of J.R.R. Tolkien

• Douglas A. Anderson: J.R.R. Tolkien and W. Rhys Roberts’s “Gerald of Wales on the Survival of Welsh
• Sandra Ballif Straubhaar: Gilraen’s “Linnod”: Function, Genre, Prototype Dale Nelson, Little Nell and Frodo the Halfling
• David Bratman: The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2001-2002
• Michael D.C. Drout with Melissa Smith-MacDonald: Bibliography (in English) for 2003

Editors: Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger
E-ISSN: 1547-3155
ISBN: 978-1-933202-10-5
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Table of Contents

• Ross Smith: Fitting Sense to Sound: Linguistic Aesthetics and Phonosemantics in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Maria Prozesky: The Text Tale of Frodo the Nine-fingered: Residual Oral Patterning in The Lord of the Rings
• Amy M. Amendt-Raduege: Dream Visions in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• Gergely Nagy: The ‘Lost’ Subject of Middle-earth: The Constitution of the Subject in the Figure of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings
• Martin Simonson: Three is Company: Novel, Fairy Tale, and Romance on the Journey through the Shire
• Richard W. Fehrenbacher: Beowulf as Fairy-story: Enchanting the Elegiac in The Two Towers
• James Obertino: Barbarians and Imperialism in Tacitus and The Lord of the Rings
• Karen Wynn Fonstad: Writing 'TO' the Map
• Douglas A. Anderson: R. W. Chambers and The Hobbit
• Michael D. C. Drout: A Spliced Old English Quotation in "Beowulf": The Monsters and the Critics
• James I. McNelis III: "The tree took me up from the ground and carried me off": A Source for Tolkien's Ents in Ludvig Holberg's Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground
• Book Reviews, Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
• David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies
• Marcel Bülles, Michael D.C. Drout, and Rebecca Epstein: Bibliography for 2004

Editors: Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger
E-ISSN: 1547-3155 ISBN: 978-1-933202-26-6
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Table of Contents

• Carl F. Hostetter: Tolkienian Linguistics: The First Fifty Years
• Douglas A. Anderson: Carl F. Hostetter: A Checklist Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien’s ‘“Celtic” type of legends’: Merging Traditions
• Miryam Librán-Moreno: Greek and Latin Amatory Motifs in Éowyn’s Portrayal
• Verlyn Flieger: The Curious Incident of the Dream at the Barrow: Memory and Reincarnation in Middle-earth Michael
• D. C. Drout: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Medieval Scholarship and its Significance
• J. R. R. Tolkien: The Name "Nodens"
• Jane Brennan Croft: Walter E. Haigh, Author of A New Glossary of the Huddersfield
• Thomas Honegger: The Homecoming of Beorthnoth: Philology and the Literary Muse
• Marjorie Burns: Tracking the Elusive Hobbit (In Its Pre-Shire Den)
• Yvette L. Kisor: Elves (and Hobbits) always refer to the Sun as She: Some Notes on a Note in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• Kristine Larsen: Sauron, Mount Doom, and Elvish Moths: The Influence of Tolkien on Modern Science
• Michael D.C. Drout, Rebecca Epstein, and Kathryn Paar: Bibliography (in English) for 2005

Editors: Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger
E-ISSN: 1547-3155
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Volume VI is no longer available for purchase.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors’ Introduction: In Memoriam: Pauline Baynes and Derek Brewer Conventions and Abbreviations
John D. Rateliff: “A Kind of Elvish Craft”: Tolkien as Literary Craftsman
Douglads A. Anderson: John D. Rateliff: A Checklist
Ármann Jakobsson: A Talk to the Dragon: Tolkien as Translator
Jill Fitzgerald: “Clerkes Compleinte”: Tolkien and the Division of Lit. and Lang.
Stefan Ekman: Echoes of Pearl in Arda’s Landscape
Judy Ann Ford and Robin Anne Reid: Councils and Kings: Aragorn’s Journey Towards Kingship in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings
Cynthia M. Cohen: The Unique Representation of Trees in The Lord of the Rings
Josh Long : Clinamen, Tessera, and the Anxiety of Influence: Swerving from and Completing George MacDonald
Verlyn Flieger: The Music and the Task: Fate and Free Will in Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien, Edited by Carl F. Hostetter: Fate and Free Will
Stuart D. Lee: J.R.R. Tolkien and The Wanderer: From Edition to Application
Christopher Gilson: Essence of Elvish: The Basic Vocabulary of Quenya
Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson: Book Reviews
David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies
Jason Rea, Kathryn Paar, and Michael D. C. Drout: Bibliography (in English) for 2007
Notes on Contributors

Editors: Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger
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Table of Contents

• Brian Rosebury: Revenge and Moral Judgement in Tolkien
• Douglas A. Anderson: Rosebury on Tolkien: A Checklist
• Carl Phelpstead: "With chunks of poetry in between": The Lord of the Rings and Saga Poetics
• Corey Olsen: The Myth of the Ent and the Entwife
• James G. Davis: Showing Saruman as Faber: Tolkien and Peter Jackson
• Lynn Forest-Hill: Boromir, Byrhtnoth, and Bayard: Finding a Language for Grief in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• Jason Fisher: Three Rings For Whom Exactly? Justifying the Disposition of the Three Elven Rings
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale
• J.R.R. Tolkien: The Reeve's Tale
• Ross Smith: Steiner on Tolkien
• George Steiner, trans. Ross Smith: Tolkien, Oxford's Eccentric Don
• Book Reviews, compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
• Michael D.C. Drout, Jason Rea, Rebecca Epstein, and Lauren Provost: Bibliography (in English) for 2006
   

Editors: Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger
E-ISSN: 1547-3155
Frequency: Annual

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Table of Contents

• Vladimir Brljak: The Books of Lost Tales: Tolkien as Metafictionist
• Peter Kristof Makai: Faërian Cyberdrama: When Fantasy becomes Virtual Reality
• Michael Milburn: Coleridge’s Definition of Imagination and Tolkien’s Definition(s) of Faery
• Thomas Fornet-Ponse: “Strange and free” —On Some Aspects of the Nature of Elves and Men
• Mary R. Bowman: Refining the Gold: Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon, and the Northern Theory of Courage
• Thomas Honegger: Fantasy, Escape, Recovery, and Consolation in Sir Orfeo: The Medieval Foundations of Tolkienian Fantasy
• Sherrylyn Branchaw: Elladan and Elrohir: The Dioscuri in The Lord of the Rings
• Yoko Hemmi: Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and His Concept of Native Language: Sindarin and British-Welsh
• Margaret Sinex: “Monsterized Saracens,” Tolkien’s Haradrim, and Other Medieval “Fantasy Products”
• Kristine Larsen: Myth, Milky Way, and the Mysteries of Tolkien’s Morwinyon, Telumendil, and Anarríma
• J.R.R. Tolkien: “The Story of Kullervo” and Essays on Kalevala, Transcribed and edited by Verlyn Flieger 
• John Garth: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Fairies
• Book Reviews, Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
• David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2007
• Rebecca Epstein, Michael D.C. Drout, and David Bratman: Bibliography (in English) for 2008

Medieval European Studies represents contemporary developments in the best scholarship in English on the culture and history of Europe throughout the medieval period, which is defined as beginning as early as the establishment of the new pan-European religion, Christianity, in 325 CE at the Nicene Council to the end of the period which may, in Northern Europe, be dated as late as circa 1500 CE.

The series seeks original works of scholarly significance, newly edited texts with full textual apparatus where these are not otherwise available, and newly corrected and annotated editions of earlier scholarship of continuing use to scholars and students. All manuscripts selected for inclusion in the series is based on a rigorous peer review by experts in the appropriate sub-fields. Every volume in the MES series is priced for inclusion on course reading lists. To submit a manuscript contact: Dr. Patrick W. Conner, Series Editor, patrick.conner@mail.wvu.edu.

Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture is a new series devoted to reprinting editions of important African American texts that either have fallen out of print or have failed to receive the attention they deserve.

Regenerations encourages research that develops and extends the understanding of African American literary and cultural history, while promoting regional and local research that represents the complex dynamics of African American experience.

For all books published in this series, we will seek out texts with wide and varied appeal, and we will seek out scholars who are committed to providing original research on the authors and texts. Each book in the series will benefit from collaborations between experienced and emerging scholars and will feature strong biographical and historical introductions, full annotations when appropriate, and, when possible, an appendix with relevant materials by or about the author.

In addition to producing authoritative editions, Regenerations will serve the field by encouraging research that develops and extends our understanding of African American literary and cultural history. We are especially interested in texts that benefit from and promote regional and even local research, so as to represent the complex dynamics of African American experience, including great mobility and significant activity beyond the cities and states usually taken to be the main centers of African American community and literature.

In the selection and presentation of texts published in the Regenerations series, we hope to encourage research on the dynamics of geographical influence—from points of departure to multiple centers of arrival, from the “New Southern Studies” to reconsiderations of African American resettlements in Canada, from research on New England history to studies of the Black West, and from the American Midwest to the Caribbean and Latin America.

The first book in the Regenerations series is Hearts of Gold. Written by J. McHenry Jones, this novel was originally published in 1896 and will be rereleased in February of 2010 with the addition of an introduction and appendix. This book is edited by John Ernest, West Virginia University and Eric Gardner, Saginaw Valley State University.

Series edited by John Ernest, West Virginia University and Joycelyn K. Moody, University of Texas at San Antonio.

Reviews

"[This] series will expand the scholarly discussion about the ways in which such texts help us to rethink the field and insure that the books will be taught in the classroom and thereby be sustained for the next generation. . . .Professors Ernest and Moody have the expertise to insure the highest quality for these aspects of publication."
Sharon Harris, Director, Humanities Institute and Professor of English, University of Connecticut.

"As the editor of African American Review, Joycelyn K. Moody has had her finger on the pulse of new scholarship. . . . . [while] John Ernest [is] a scholarly editor whose work is careful, insightful, and accessible. . . ."
Frances Smith Foster, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies, Emory University

"This [series] recognizes the enhanced role of the archive in literary research--research libraries and historical societies that have preserved the letters and papers of non-canonical writers. Such authors, whose work has been neglected are now being presented in the scholarship of literary critics as they expand the definition of the canon and revise its interpretation. . . ."
Caroline F. Sloat, Director of Book Publication, American Antiquarian Society "

"[Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture] has the potential to be a vital, exciting series that will make available neglected texts that can help us to rethink African American literary and cultural traditions."
Robert S. Levine, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland