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Inferno
Metamorphoses
Federman's fictions
Hints and disguises
Arthur Conan Doyle and the meaning of masculinity
Commentaries on the law in Shakespeare
Colin's campus
THE ULYSSES VOYAGE
Dostoevsky's Dickens
Gender, genre, and Victorian historical writing
Re-Thinking Science
Samuel Johnson's critical opinions
Sherlock Holmes and a Question of Science
Giants in those days
T.S. Eliot's orchestra
Georgette Heyer's Regency world
Dylan Thomas's Wales
From knowledge to wisdom
Uses of the past in the novels of William Faulkner
D.H. Lawrence and the child
Fielding's moral psychology
Robert Bridges
In other worlds
Walt Whitman's America
Shakespeare Survey
Mesmerism and Hawthorne
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens and the law
Empirical truths and critical fictions
Our preposterous use of literature
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