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The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought

Christopher D. Johnson

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Publication Date: 07/01/2010

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Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature

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Christopher D. Johnson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

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