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Most of the following essays and responses were given at the University of Illinois (Urbana- Champaign) in November of 2008 as part of the statewide celebration of the Lincoln Bicentennial. We thank the Provost’s office at the University for its support of this symposium.

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  1. Hearing Lincoln and the Making of Eloquence
  2. Robert A. Ferguson
  3. pp. 687-724
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  1. Lincoln and the Forms of Legal Rhetoric: A Response to Robert A. Ferguson
  2. Bruce P. Smith
  3. pp. 725-729
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  1. Lincoln’s Dred Scott: Contesting the Declaration of Independence
  2. John Burt
  3. pp. 730-751
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  1. A Response to John Burt
  2. Daniel W. Hamilton
  3. pp. 752-756
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  1. “The Best Circus in Town”: Embodied Theatrics in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  2. Gillian Silverman
  3. pp. 757-787
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  1. A Response to Gillian Silverman
  2. Shirley Samuels
  3. pp. 788-792
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  1. “All the Men of Great Affairs”: The Barnard Statue, Manchester Liberalism, and Lincoln Intellectual History
  2. Anthony Hutchison
  3. pp. 793-809
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  1. The Headless Prime Minister and Other Tales: A Response to Anthony Hutchison
  2. Matthew Hart
  3. pp. 810-817
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  1. The Literature of “British America”
  2. Ralph Bauer
  3. pp. 818-835
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  1. How to Do Time with Texts
  2. Jesse Matz
  3. pp. 836-844
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  1. The History of Reading and the Death of the Text
  2. Barbara Hochman
  3. pp. 845-858
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  1. Re-Centering the Center
  2. Edward Watts
  3. pp. 859-868
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  1. The Ends of Obscenity
  2. Loren Glass
  3. pp. 869-876
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  1. Warring Desires: The Future of Jewish-American Literature
  2. Elaine M. Kauvar
  3. pp. 877-890
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  1. The Empire at Home and the Empire Abroad
  2. John Gruesser
  3. pp. 891-901
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  1. Turning Southward: Sons Journeying Home
  2. Deborah E. McDowell
  3. pp. 902-922
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  1. African-American Literary Studies and the Legacies of Black Nationalism
  2. Rolland Murray
  3. pp. 923-937
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  1. Poetry and the Age
  2. Raphael C. Allison
  3. pp. 938-948
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  1. Forthcoming: Volume 22, Number 1
  2. p. 949
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