The diary of a public man: a case study in traditional and non-traditional authorship attribution.
Of all American literary mysteries The Diary of a Public Man has been perhaps the most perplexing. Set principally in Washington DC, it covers a short but critical period in the nation’s history, the secession winter of 1860–61. The Diary entries are dated during the last months of James Buchanan’s...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 179 - 198 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2010
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