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MLA Handbook 5
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New Titles (listed in order of publication date within each series) 7–16
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MLA Handbook for Writers of

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New in the MLA series World Literatures Reimagined
Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies:

Between the Local and the Global
Kirsty Hooper and Manuel Puga Moruxa, eds.
“Essential for the instructor offering classes or

seminars in the topic. It is scholarly, thorough, and
thought provoking. A groundbreaking book.”
—Cristina Moreiras-Menor
University of Michigan
Galicia occupies an ambiguous position, at the crossroads between land and Contributors: Burghard
sea, the Atlantic north and the Mediterranean south, Spanish and Portuguese. Baltrusch, Silvia Bermúdez,
Jaine Beswick, José Colmeiro,
For two centuries, its nationhood was ignored or disputed and its people Lourenzo Fernández Prieto,
migrated in great numbers to the Americas. What it means to be Galician, Antón Figueroa, Joseba
therefore, is a central question—particularly now, given Galicia’s new Gabilondo, Laura López
Fernández, Timothy McGovern,
autonomy and today’s trends of globalization and pluralism. Marta Pérez Pereiro, María do
Cebreiro Rábade Villar, María
In this first English-language collection of analyses of Galician culture and Reimóndez, Eugenia R. Romero,
identity, many aspects of galeguidade—Galicianness—are explored. Among John Patrick Thompson
them are the nineteenth-century Rexurdimento and Rosalía de Castro’s
championing of and conflict with Galician nationalism, the status of Galician
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as a separate language, the attractions and problems of television series that
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New in the MLA series Options for Teaching
Teaching Law and Literature

Austin Sarat, Cathrine O. Frank, and
Matthew Anderson, eds.
“Students in undergraduate humanities courses will

benefit from studying the way legal realities help
shape and inform literary works. Law teachers may
usefully assign chapters from the text to explore law’s
narrative drama.”
—Richard Sherwin
New York Law School
Contributors: Philip Auslander, This volume provides a resource for teachers interested in learning about
Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Mary the field of law and literature and shows how to bring its insights to bear in
Flowers Braswell, Peter
Brooks, Kieran Dolin, Florence their classrooms, both in the liberal arts and in law schools. Essays in the first
Dore, Alex Feerst, David section, “Theory and History of the Movement,” provide a retrospective of
H. Fisher, Nan Goodman, the field and look forward to new developments. The second section, “Model
Chaya Halberstam, Susan
Sage Heinzelman, Peter C.
Courses,” offers readers an array of possibilities for structuring courses that
Herman, Diane Hoeveler, integrate legal issues with the study of literature, from The Canterbury Tales
Harold Joseph, Valerie Karno, to current prison literature. In “Texts,” the third section, guidance is provided
Lenora Ledwon, Nancy S. for teaching not only written documents (novels, plays, trial reports) but also
Marder, Bridget M. Marshall,
Alyce Miller, D. Quentin Miller, cultural objects: digital media, Native American ceremonies, documentary
Harriet Murav, Victoria Myers, theater, hip-hop. The volume’s contributors investigate what constitutes law
Linda Myrsiades, Jacqueline and literature and how each informs the other.
O’Connor, Julie Stone Peters,
Greg Pingree, Ravit Reichman,
Lisa Rodensky, Hilary Schor,
Richard Schur, Caleb Smith,
Cristine Soliz, Simon Stern,
Nomi Stolzenberg, Brook
Thomas, Zoe Trodd, Elliot
Visconsi, Patricia D. Watkins,
Richard H. Weisberg, Robert
Weisberg, Robin West, James
Boyd White, Theodore Ziolkowski
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Teaching French Women Writers

of the Renaissance and Reformation
Colette H. Winn, ed.
“An excellent volume of essays on an increasingly

important topic of research and instruction.”
—Edwin M. Duval
Yale University
Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation considers Contributors: Cécile Alduy,
the issues critical to teaching recently rediscovered writers, such as Hélisenne Deborah Lesko Baker, Jean-
Philippe Beaulieu, Edith Joyce
de Crenne, Pernette du Guillet, and Louise Labé, who have enriched the Benkov, Laura B. Bergman,
literary canon by offering alternative perspectives on the social, political, Susan Broomhall, Leah
and religious issues of early modern France. Addressing topics from law Chang, Jane Couchman, Gary
Ferguson, Carla Freccero,
and medicine to motherhood and aesthetics, these women wrote in nearly Nancy Frelick, Zeina Hakim,
every genre, and their works include several literary firsts: the first book of Karen Simroth James, Ann
Christian emblems ever published by a woman (Georgette du Montenay), Rosalind Jones, Carrie F. Klaus,
the first published collection of private letters between women in French (the Claude La Charité, Anne R.
Larsen, Mary B. McKinley,
Dames de Roches), and the first full-length memoir by a woman in French Leslie Zarker Morgan, Dora E.
(Margaret of Valois). Polachek, Graziella Postolache,
François Rigolot, Brigitte
The volume considers techniques for reading women’s writing alongside the Roussel, Danielle Trudeau,
texts of their male contemporaries and offers guidance on incorporating a Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier,
Diane S. Wood, Carla Zecher
range of resources into the classroom. Essays in part 1 explore the background
and contexts so crucial for helping students understand how these writers
negotiated their entry into the public world of writing. In part 2, contributors September 2011
discuss specific genres. Part 3 describes critical methodologies that are useful Options for Teaching 31
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Teaching Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-

Century French Women Writers
Faith E. Beasley, ed.
“This collection of essays provides a wealth of

information on how to teach women authors in a
variety of courses. The usefulness and the fascinating
content of this book realize the true potential of the
Options for Teaching series.”
—Roland Racevskis
University of Iowa
Contributors: Lisa Beckstrand, Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France has been celebrated as the period
Mary Ellen Birkett, Thomas M. of conversation. Salons flourished and became an important social force.
Carr, Jr., Juliette Cherbuliez,
Suzan van Dijk, Perry Gethner, Women and men worked together, in dialogue with their contemporaries,
Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, other texts, and their culture to create novels, political satire, drama, poetry,
Claire Goldstein, Henriette fairy tales, travel narratives, and philosophy. Yet the inclusion of women’s
Goldwyn, Richard E. Goodkin,
David Harrison, Chloé Hogg,
contributions, only recently recovered, changes the way we conceive of the
Louise K. Horowitz, Katharine period that constitutes one of the building blocks of French national identity
Ann Jensen, Donna Kuizenga, and Western civilization, and teachers are often unsure how and where to
Roxanne Decker Lalande, Ann incorporate the texts into their courses. Teaching Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-
Leone, John D. Lyons, Laure
Marcellesi, Francis Mathieu, Century French Women Writers attempts to reconstruct these conversations by
Katherine Montwieler, Nicholas integrating women’s work into classrooms across the curriculum.
Paige, Volker Schröder, Allison
Stedman, Deborah Steinberger, The works of French women writers are crucial to courses on the early
Harriet Stone, Mary Trouille, modern period and enliven many others—whether on literature, history,
Holly Tucker, Gabrielle Verdier,
Caroline Weber, Kathleen Wine, women’s history, the history of science, philosophy, women’s and gender
Abby Zanger studies, or European civilization. The essays included in part 1 provide
necessary background and help instructors identify places in their courses
that could be enriched by taking women’s participation into account.
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Contributors in part 2 focus on some of the central writers and genres of the
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period, including Lafayette, Charrière, and Graffigny, the epistolary novel,
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New in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature
Approaches to Teaching Faulkner’s

As I Lay Dying
Patrick O’Donnell and Lynda Zwinger, eds.
“This volume of essays on As I Lay Dying will fill a

longtime need for teachers and students of Faulkner.
The editors have provided us with an aid that should
help both new teachers and veterans to teach it more
fully and effectively.”
—Gail L. Mortimer
professor emerita of English
University of Texas, El Paso
As I Lay Dying is considered by many both the most enigmatic and the Contributors: Cedric Gael
most accessible of Faulkner’s major works. It is also the most dramatic; the Bryant, Deborah Clarke, Mark
Frisch, Donald M. Kartiganer,
journey of the Bundrens, a family of poor farmers in the South in the early Barbara Ladd, Cheryl Lester,
twentieth century, unfolds like a one-act play, full of natural disaster and John T. Matthews, E. L.
human madness. Taught in high school, college, and graduate courses, the McCallum, Sean McCann,
Lisa K. Perdigao, Homer B.
novel lends itself to a wide range of interpretations, posing both challenges and Pettey, Annette Wannamaker,
opportunities for the instructor. Michael Zeitlin, Heide Ziegler
Part 1 of this Approaches volume, “Materials,” offers an extensive guide to

reference materials helpful for both reading and teaching As I Lay Dying. In August 2011
Part 2, “Approaches,” fourteen essays examine the historical, geographic, and Approaches to Teaching
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and the relation between nature and culture.
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Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of

John Gower
R. F. Yeager and Brian W. Gastle, eds.
“The essays are clearly written and, because of

their range, contain something of interest to any
instructor, whether one at a community college
or at a major research institution, whether one
interested in traditional literary criticism or its
more recent manifestations.”
—Tim William Machan
Marquette University
Contributors: Peter G. A poet who wrote fluently in Middle English, Anglo-French, and Latin, John
Beidler, Craig E. Bertolet, Gower typifies the English Middle Ages. His economical and sober style, the
Andreea Boboc, María Bullón-
Fernández, Susannah M. topics he addressed—marriage, love, chivalry, social class, law, and religious
Chewning, Joyce Coleman, faith—and the depth and breadth of his references to earlier literature, myth,
James M. Dean, Georgiana and folktale made his work attractive not only to contemporaries such as
Donavin, Siân Echard, Erick
Kelemen, Leonard Koff,
Chaucer but also to later poets such as Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton.
Steven F. Kruger, Scott Lightsey, Gower is increasingly acknowledged as a poet whose texts offer unique
Carole Lynn McKinney, J. Allan opportunities to teachers wishing to introduce their students to the riches of
Mitchell, Peter Nicholson, medieval literature and culture.
James M. Palmer, S. Elizabeth
Passmore, Derek Pearsall,
The essays in part 1, “Materials,” review the available editions and translations
Russell A. Peck, Winthrop
Wetherbee of Gower’s works, compile useful electronic resources for teaching, and
discuss the sources and analogues and critical work on his canon. In part 2,
“Approaches,” contributors make recommendations for teaching the historical
August 2011 context of Gower’s writing, involving topics from estates theory and law to
Approaches to Teaching confession and medicine; for examining his language and rhetoric in the
ISSN 1059-1133 classroom, including reading his work aloud; and for studying his works in
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Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60329-099-9 to classical as well as other Middle English authors. A final section considers
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of

François Rabelais
Todd W. Reeser and Floyd Gray, eds.
“This volume meets an essential pedagogical need

in the field and will therefore be a most welcome
addition to the MLA Approaches series.”
—David Posner
Loyola University, Chicago
The works of François Rabelais—Gargantua, Pantagruel, the Tiers livre, and Contributors: Tom Conley,
Edwin M. Duval, Gary Ferguson,
the Quart livre—embody the Renaissance spirit of discovery and are crucial to
Carl Fisher, Carla Freccero,
the development of early modern prose and to the birth of the novel. Rabelais’s Andrea Frisch, Kirsten A.
exuberant satire deals not only with the major cultural and intellectual issues Fudeman, Timothy Hampton,
of his time but also with issues of interest to students today. Elisabeth Hodges, Karen James,
Scott D. Juall, Marcus Keller,
This volume suggests the materials that can be used in teaching Rabelais: Virginia Krause, Lawrence D.
Kritzman, David LaGuardia,
editions, translations, criticism, Web sites, music, artwork, and films. The Kathleen Long, Deborah N.
volume’s essays present strategies for the classroom, discussing the classical Losse, Mary McKinley, Jan
and biblical allusions; the context of humanism and evangelical reform; Miernowski, John O’Brien,
James M. Palmer, John Parkin,
various themes (giants, monsters, war); both feminism and masculinity
Jeff Persels, Michael Randall,
as vexing subjects; Rabelais’s erudition; and the challenges of teaching his Richard Regosin, Bernd
inventive language, his ambiguity, and his scatology. Renner, François Rigolot, Jerry
Root, Cynthia Skenazi, Walter
Stephens, Timothy J. Tomasik,
Valerie Worth-Stylianou,
Elizabeth Chesney Zegura
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Approaches to Teaching
H.D.’s Poetry and Prose
Annette Debo and Lara Vetter, eds.
“An impressive volume . . . I am struck by the richness

and variety of approaches to teaching H.D.”
—Cynthia Hogue
Arizona State University
Contributors: Jane Augustine, The poet Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) came on the literary scene in the 1910s as
Raffaella Baccolini, Marsha
a young American expatriate living in England. Her early lyric poems, in
Bryant, Rachel Connor, Mary K.
DeShazer, Madelyn Detloff, Sea Garden, helped launch the free verse movement known as imagism.
Mary Ann Eaverly, Susan Her work as a whole, spanning five decades, includes long narrative poems,
Stanford Friedman, Elizabeth novels, memoirs, and translations. Her experience of the two world wars in
Hirsh, Donna Krolik Hollenberg,
Bret L. Keeling, Charlotte
Europe is felt throughout her oeuvre, much of which focuses on the power
Mandel, James Maynard, and destructiveness of war. Other recurring topics are ancient models of
Susan McCabe, Adalaide civilization, comparative mythology, and female deities suppressed in the
Morris, Cyrena N. Pondrom, modern era.
Lisa Rado, Mara Scanlon,
Helen Sword, Heather H.
Yet her work—complex and densely allusive—can be difficult for students
Thomas, Rebecca Walsh,
Lesley Wheeler to comprehend and for instructors to teach. This volume aims to assist
instructors in helping their students navigate the intricacies of H.D.’s work
and overcome some of the frustration of deciphering modern poetry. The
December 2011 first part, “Materials,” presents resources useful to instructors of H.D.’s work,
Approaches to Teaching and the second part, “Approaches,” offers specific ways to teach her wide-
ISSN 1059-1133 ranging corpus. Contributors describe courses that teach H.D. in the context
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Paper ISBN: 978-1-60329-103-3
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place in a course on critical theory. Many instructors teach H.D. through the
lens of sexuality, feminism, or race; others use interdisciplinary approaches
that focus on H.D’s engagement with film.
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of

Naguib Mahfouz
Waïl S. Hassan and Susan Muaddi Darraj, eds.
“This volume’s usefulness for teachers and students of

Mahfouz as well as for undergraduate and graduate
courses on the Arabic novel and surveys of Arabic or
world literature is beyond question.”
—Adnan Haydar
University of Arkansas
Naguib Mahfouz is the Arab world’s best-known writer and the single Contributors: Roger Allen,
most important chronicler and analyst of twentieth-century Egypt. He was Michael Beard, Elliott Colla,
Terri DeYoung, Nouri Gana,
awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, and since then his work has Hala Halim, Barbara Harlow,
been increasingly studied in North American university classrooms. This first Michelle Hartman, Maysa
volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature to focus Abou-Youssef Hayward,
Nabil Matar, Justin St. Clair,
on an Arab author or Arabic literature provides an introduction to Mahfouz. Shaden M. Tageldin
In part 1, “Materials,” the editors discuss Mahfouz’s background, influence,

and critical reception. In part 2, “Approaches,” the volume’s contributors offer January 2012
information, resources, and insights for teaching his work. Topics covered Approaches to Teaching
include the Arabian Nights tradition in Mahfouz’s work, the challenge World Literature 119
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors

Standish Henning, ed.
“[The New Variorum Edition] cites the best thinking

of the best minds who have commented on
Shakespeare in the last three and a half centuries.”
—New York Times
Rescheduled for winter 2012 Inaugurated in the 1860s and the standard reference edition of Shakespeare’s
This Variorum volume includes a work, the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare continues the tradition of the
CD that contains the contents as
text-searchable PDFs with internal original Variorum editions of the early nineteenth century. The latest edition,
links for easy navigation. The Comedy of Errors, not only contains the complete text of the play but also
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history and influential interpretations of particular words.
New Variorum editions are valuable resources for an international audience of

scholars, students, directors, actors, and general readers. Overseen by two general
editors and an MLA committee, the production of each edition is conducted by a
team of scholars and researchers working over a number of years.
Other Titles in the Series Measure for Measure Set of Five

Mark Eccles, ed. Variorum Volumes
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Containing over one hundred volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133)
addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical
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they have found effective in keeping classroom discussions lively. Most volumes are
available in cloth for $37.50 (short discount) and in paper for $19.75 (trade discount).
Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Beowulf The Writings of

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Maureen Fries and Blake’s Songs of Innocence Paper ISBN 978-1-87352-945-7
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Texts and Translations 4 Eleonore Thon

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1997. xxxviii & 74 pp. 5½ x 8½
● Adelheit von Rastenberg An English Translation
Paper ISBN 978-0-87352-782-8 George F. Peters, trans.
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Texts and Translations 17 S˛eyh Galip

English translation
2005. xxix & 216 pp. 5½ x 8½
● Beauty and Love
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Texts and Translations 13 Sophie Cottin

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Texts and Translations 27 Confessions of a Poisoner, Written by Herself

English translation
2009. xliii & 199 pp. 5½ x 8½
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Texts and Translations 7 Dovid Bergelson

English translation
1999. li & 240 pp. 5½ x 8½
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Descent
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Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury Texts and Translations 10

English translation
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George Sand Texts and Translations 28

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Françoise de Graffigny Texts and Translations 2

English translation
Letters from a Peruvian Woman 1993. xxviii & 174 pp. 5½ x 8½ ●
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Texts and Translations 1

Isabelle de Charrière English translation
Letters of Mistress Henley Published 1993. xxix & 42 pp. 5½ x 8½
●
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par son amie
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only to discover that she cannot bear sharing his life.
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Texts and Translations 18 Edith Bruck

English translation
2006. xxvii & 251 pp. 5½ x 8½ ● Letter to My Mother
Paper ISBN 978-0-87352-936-5 Brenda Webster with Gabriella Romani, trans.
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Texts and Translations 11 Adolphe Belot

English translation
2002. xlii & 214 pp. 5½ x 8½
●
Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife
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2002. xl & 216 pp. 5½ x 8½
●
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Teaching Life Writing Texts Options for Teaching 21

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