Deidre Lynch: Loving Shakespeare Too Much
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Eric Nelson: Hebraism, Monarchy, and the American Revolution
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Elaine Scarry: Charlotte Brontë’s Miniature Books
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Elaheh Kheirandish: Ibn al-Haytham and the works of Islamic Science
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Daniel Donoghue: Fragments of Anglo-Saxon England
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