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The Transcultural Transformation of a Field

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This Introduction shows how studies of the long nineteenth century, especially Victorian and Modern studies, are transformed by a focus on transculturation of the processes of modernization. The actants in these processes include specific authors, works, and movements, but also geopolitical ideologies such as individualism, collectivism, nationalism, internationalism, and cosmopolitanism; geopolitical institutions and state apparatuses such as modes of government and trade, legal systems, and armed services; and geopolitical commodities and technologies like rice , maize, bananas, railways and sanitation systems. Part 1 introduces transcultural political languages. Part 2 develops the concept of transculturation as a process. Part 3 surveys the global state of Victorian Studies in institutionalized and emergent forms.

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Gagnier, R. (2018). The Transcultural Transformation of a Field. In: Literatures of Liberalization. New Comparisons in World Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98419-3_1

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