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Consensus and Contest: The Public Humanities and Unsettling Reception
- Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
- Midwest Modern Language Association
- Volume 45, Number 1, Spring 2012
- pp. 1-2
- 10.1353/mml.2012.0003
- Article
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Some versions of the past are well received, some arouse dismay, and some have produced sparks, as several colleagues on book tours or in public forums have recently discovered. What happens when citizen mistrust outstrips mutual understanding, when disquieting encounters trump scholarly journals?