Connotations wants to encourage scholarly communication in the field of English Literature (from the Middle English period to the present). It is an international, refereed journal which focuses on the semantic and stylistic energy of the language of literature in a historical perspective and aims to represent different approaches.

Each issue consists of articles and a forum for discussion. The forum presents, for instance, research in progress, critical hypotheses, responses to articles (published in Connotations or elsewhere) as well as to recent books.

Contributions will be published within five months after submission so that discussion can begin without delay.

Connotations is published three times a year by the Connotations Society and by Waxmann Verlag Münster / New York. A selection of contributions is freely available online in the WWW. Contributions should be forwarded to the Editors by e-mail or on disk (if on disk, a hard copy should be enclosed). Articles should not exceed 12,000 words and follow the MLA Handbook. Responses and other contributions to the forum should not exceed 4,000 words.

Connotations is a member of CELJ and is indexed, for example, in the MLA Bibliography, the World Shakespeare Bibliography and the IBZ/IBR