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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
Publication continues to be one of the more important activities of the scholar-teacher. Through the years, the scholar gains experience as to what is publishable, where it should be placed, and how it can be presented to achieve maximum effect. The Executive Council of the Modern Language Association felt, however, that the advice of some senior scholars and experienced publishers might be of use to younger writers. The following document has passed through several revisions and incorporates the observations of thirty-three able consultants. It is hoped that it will save both scholars and their publishers from unnecessary disappointments.
Members of an ad hoc Committee appointed by the MLA Executive Council. The report, circulated in three draft forms, was read and criticized by Richard D. Altick, Ohio State Univ.; Herbert S. Bailey, Jr., Princeton Univ. Press; Chandler Beall, Univ. of Oregon; Fredson Bowers, Univ. of Virginia; Germaine Brée, Univ. of Wisconsin; Ashbel G. Brice, Duke Univ. Press; George Brockway, W. W. Norton; Vincenzo Cioffari, D. C. Heath; Madeleine Doran, Univ. of Wisconsin; Leon Edel, New York Univ.; William B. Edgerton, Indiana Univ.; August Frugé, Univ. of California Press; David Horne, Yale Univ. Press; Howard Mumford Jones, Harvard Univ.; Lawrence B. Kiddle, Univ. of Michigan; George Metcalf, Univ. of Chicago; John E. Neill, W. W. Norton; William R. Parker, Indiana Univ.; Henri Peyre, Yale Univ.; Dana J. Pratt, Scholarly Books in America; Gordon N. Ray, Guggenheim Foundation; Macha L. Rosenthal, New York Univ.; Mark Schorer, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Oskar Seidlin, Ohio State Univ.; Archibald K. Shields, Holt, Rinehart, & Winston; Roger W. Shugg, Univ. of Chicago Press; Claude Simpson, Jr., Stanford Univ.; Jack M. Stein, Harvard Univ.; George Winchester Stone, Jr., New York Univ.; Henry Thoma, Houghton Mifflin; B. J. Whiting, Harvard Univ.; Thomas J. Wilson, Harvard Univ. Press; Carl Woodring, Columbia Univ. The names italicized are those of critics who were unusually painstaking and helpful.
