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The Russian intelligentsia
Women and the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, 1640-1660
Sociology as an art form
Blake and tradition
History of civilization in England
Poetry after Auschwitz
Unnatural Selections
Imagine nation
Epic of evolution
Women poets in ancient Greece and Rome
La literatura nazi en América
The mind of the Middle Ages, A.D. 200-1500
Flannery O'Connor's South
Philippe Ariès and the politics of French cultural history
The Closing of the Western Mind
The Inuit thought of it
Journey to the frontier
British post-structuralism
The Economy of Literary Form
Emerson
The ages of man
The crossroads of American history and literature
The Life of W. B. Yeats
Cornel West & philosophy
The roads to modernity
Cambodian culture since 1975
Revising Flannery O'Connor
Unofficial China
The cultural life of the new Nation, 1776-1830
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna
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