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Despite its title, this final chapter is more about anticipations than conclusions. Rather than finishing with a roundup of what just happened, it asks instead, “What happens next?”—for literary geography, for The Great World, and for this book itself. The first area of anticipation is the geography of literary geographies. As someone who “does literary geography” in the face of all the interdisciplinary difficulties involved in sustaining a coherent idea of what literary geography actually is and might be, I ask this question from a personal standpoint. The second area of anticipation has to do with The Great World: with the first phase of promotion and reception now concluded, what comes next, and what will be the effect of the 2013 publication of McCann’s new novel TransAtlantic? The third and final “what happens next?” is applied to this study itself. Now that it’s written and in your hands, what happens next?
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Hones, S. (2014). Conclusion. In: Literary Geographies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137413130_11
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