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Harvard Library Bulletin 20

Johnson After Three Centuries

New Light on Texts and Contexts

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Publication Date: 09/12/2011

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Thomas A. Horrocks is the author of Lincoln’s Campaign Biographies and former Director of the John Hay Library, Brown University.

Howard D. Weinbrot is Ricardo Quintana Professor of English and William Freeman Vilas Research Professor in the College of Arts and Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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