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Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 26, 2023
Entity authorityQ15716457 ↗
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The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal and the official publication of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. It covers the cultural history of the period from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. The journal was established in 2001 and has been published by the University of Pennsylvania Press since 2011. The journal was published biannually until 2012, when it became a quarterly publication. The editor-in-chief is Daniel Vitkus.

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The journal is abstracted and indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

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This entry incorporates text from “Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.