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A Statement of Editorial Policy |
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Forthcoming in PMLA |
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Features in PMLA |
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Special Topic: The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature
Coordinated by Seth Lerer and Leah Price |
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Introduction: Reading Matter
Leah Price |
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Francis Kirkman's Counterfeit Authority: Autobiography, Subjectivity, Print
Jody Greene |
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Breaking the Book Known as Q
Coleman Hutchison |
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The Thick Style: Steady Sellers, Textual Aesthetics, and Early Modern Devotional Reading
Matthew P. Brown |
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Defoe and the Contagion of the Oral: Modeling Media Shift in A Journal of the Plague Year
Paula McDowell |
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The Encyclopedist and the Peruvian Princess: The Poetics of Illegibility in French Enlightenment Book Culture
Lorraine Piroux |
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Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything
Andrew Piper |
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Burning with Reverence: The Economics and Aesthetics of Words in Qing (1644-1911) China
Alexander Des Forges |
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Race and the (Para)Textual Condition
Beth A. McCoy |
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Ezra Pound's Poetic Anthologies and the Architecture of Reading
John G. Nichols |
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Constructing the Postwar Art Novel: Paul Bowles, James Laughlin, and the Making of The Sheltering Sky
Evan Brier |
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War and the Book: The Diarist, the Cryptographer, and The English Patient
Alice Brittan |
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Ideas of the Book and Histories of Literature: After Theory?
Peter D. McDonald |
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Epilogue: Falling Asleep over the History of the Book
Seth Lerer |
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Little-Known Documents |
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Are Too Many Books Written and Published? (1927)
Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf
Introduction by Melba Cuddy-Keane
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Marie of the Cabin Club (1939)
Ann Petry
Introduction by Gene Jarrett
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Theories and Methodologies |
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The Unassimilated Theorist
Linda Martín Alcoff |
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Anzaldúa and Transnational American Studies
Debra A. Castillo |
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Gloria Anzaldúa: Place, Race, Language, and Sexuality in the Magic Valley
María Herrera-Sobek |
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Bridging Islands: Gloria Anzaldúa and the Caribbean
Frances Negrón-Muntaner |
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Prietita y el Otro Lado: Gloria Anzaldúa's Literature for Children
Tey Diana Rebolledo |
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For Gloria Anzaldúa: Collecting America, Performing Friendship
Ivy Schweitzer |
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The Contingencies of Life and Reading: Para Gloria
Silvia Spitta |
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Forum
Ian Barnard, Judith Butler, John DeFrancis, Harold Fromm, James D. Hoff, Burton Pike, Robert Scholes, and Gang Zhou |
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Minutes of the MLA Executive Council |
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In Memoriam |
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Index of Advertisers |
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Index of Authors Advertised |
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Abstracts |
