Matthew Wynn Sivils, coeditor of Literature in the Early American Republic (LEAR), is proud to announce the publication of the journal’s inaugural volume. LEAR is a peer-reviewed, scholarly annual that publishes articles about the literary culture of the United States from roughly the adoption of the Constitution in 1789 to the death of James Fenimore Cooper in 1851.

 Sivils coedits LEAR with Jeffrey Walker (Oklahoma State University), and the journal’s editorial office is housed in the Iowa State University English department. LEAR has the distinction of being the only scholarly literary journal based at Iowa State. The journal’s publisher, AMS Press, handles several renowned scholarly annuals, including Dickens Studies Annual, The Eighteenth-Century Novel, Resources for American Literary Studies, Spenser Studies, and others.

 For more information about LEAR.