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  • ISSN: 0021-9371 (Print), 1545-6986 (Online)
  • Editors: Nadja Durbach University of Utah, USA, and Tammy Proctor Utah State University, USA
  • Editorial board
Journal of British Studies (JBS), the official publication of the North American Conference on British Studies, is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present. JBS presents peer-reviewed scholarly articles and book reviews from renowned international authors, who use both established and emerging approaches to present their ideas on British society, politics, law, literature, art, history, economics, and sociology. JBS is an open access journal in which all research content is published Gold Open Access.

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