French influences
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Henry Miller and the surrealist discourse of excess
Rimbaud and Jim Morrison
That sweet enemy
Disowned by Memory
The French Renaissance in England
That sweet enemy
Napoleon and English Romanticism
The influence of Molière on Restoration comedy
The impact of Napoleon, 1800-1815
Propriety and permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico
Fireworks at dusk
Shakspere's debt to Montaigne
Women of the Left Bank
Ireland and France, a bountiful friendship
The Breviary of the Decadence
Eyes across the Channel
The influence of Baudelaire in France and England
Being geniuses together, 1920-1930
Une femme française
The Middle English Breton lays
Wordsworth and Coleridge
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
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