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The passionate years
Romanticism at the End of History
Francophone Film
Borrowed Words
When Europe spoke French
French poets and the English Renaissance
Drama at the courts of Queen Henrietta Maria
Chaucer and the Roman de la Rose
The French Revolution and English literature
America's French heritage
Matthew Arnold and France
Between the Ancients & the Moderns
Against the spirit of system
Dreaming in French
A formação das almas
George Sand and the nineteenth-century Russian love-triangle novels
Chaucer and the French tradition
Wallace Stevens and the symbolist imagination
Flaubert and Kafka
The French fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare
The French Revolution and the English novel
Geniuses together
The American pupils of Jean-Léon Gérôme
The romantics
Malory's grail quest
Ubu roi
The French Revolution
Lord Byron and Madame de Staël
The chivalric epic in medieval Italy
Puritans and libertines
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