Restoration publishes scholarly and critical essays on any subject in the field. We are open to all critical, scholarly, and theoretical approaches that lead to new insights into English literature and culture, 1660-1700. We understand the Restoration period as wide (England, Ireland, Scotland, North America, the Anglophone Caribbean; anywhere touched by travel, curiosity, and empire), long (the performance history of Restoration plays or approaches to teaching Restoration texts, for example), and deep (aesthetics, politics, and cultural formations crucial to the period that continue to shape our world).
From the start, the journal has appeared semi-annually and offered scholarly articles, book reviews, and an annotated bibliography of new studies. Restoration is now open access through Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open (S20); back issues are available on JSTOR and Project Muse.