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Resonant Texts in Noisy Spaces: Approaching the “Publics” of the Public Humanities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2025

Elizabeth Coggeshall
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PMLA , Volume 140 , Issue 1 , January 2025 , pp. 145 - 153
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Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Modern Language Association of America

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