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Inter-imperiality and Literary Studies in the Longer Durée

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Laura Doyle
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What would it mean for literary and cultural scholars to incorporate the new historical scholarship on early world systems and states? In particular, what might we who study literature in the context of empire, capitalism, modernity, and globalization since 1500 make of the most recent historical and archival work on non-European parts of the world before 1500?

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PMLA , Volume 130 , Issue 2 , March 2015 , pp. 336 - 347
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2015

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