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The Afterword offers a retrospective synopsis of some of the key discussions and topics covered in The Global Histories of Books. In particular, it retraces some of the key comparative, global and transnational axes that the collection explored, using rigorous, often innovative case study investigations. The Afterword observes how these studies open new ground in two literary historical fields which were until quite recently not often analysed in relation to one another: book history and global history.
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On the typologies through which global historical perspectives can be developed and investigated, see James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, and Chris Wickham (eds.), ‘Introduction’, in The Prospect of Global History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 3–22.
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James Belich et al., The Prospect of Global History, p. 3. See also Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2014).
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See C.A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World 1780–1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004).
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Elaine Freedgood, ‘The Novel and Empire’, in The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820–1880, eds. John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), p. 379. See also Elaine Freedgood, The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2006).
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See Elleke Boehmer, ‘The Worlding of the Jingo Poem’, Yearbook of English Studies, 41:2 (2010): 441–457.
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Jed Esty, Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 36, 17, 25.
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Belich, James, John Darwin, Margret Frenz and Chris Wickham, eds., ‘Introduction’, in The Prospect of Global History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 3–22.
Boehmer, Elleke, ‘The Worlding of the Jingo Poem’, Yearbook of English Studies, 41:2 (2010): 441–457.
Burton, Antoinette, and Isabel Hofmeyr, ed. Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2014).
Esty, Jed, Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Freedgood, Elaine, ‘The Novel and Empire’, in The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820–1880, eds. John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
———, The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2006).
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Boehmer, E. (2017). Afterword. In: Boehmer, E., Kunstmann, R., Mukhopadhyay, P., Rogers, A. (eds) The Global Histories of Books. New Directions in Book History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51334-8_13
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