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Spenser's forms of history
Shakespeare the Thinker
Shakespeare's legal and political background
James Joyce & medicine
Great directors at work
The feminine and Faulkner
When Men Were the Only Models We Had
The Bush dyslexicon
Savage sight, constructed noise
Yeats's Ghosts
"Steel for the mind"
Broken nuptials in Shakespeare's plays
Shakespeare and Ovid
REFORMING THE PAST
Through a glass darkly
The sensual philosophy
Mr. Dickens Goes to the Play
Milton's History of Britain
Mark Twain and medicine
Johnson's critical presence
Jane Austen's art of memory
The hedgehog and the fox
The libraries of George Eliot and George Henry Lewes
The influence of D.H. Lawrence on Tennessee Williams
Stealing God's thunder
Shakespeare et l'antiquité
Shakespeare
Understanding Emerson
Music in the works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka
The poetry of Jonathan Swift
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