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An Anthology of Spanish American Modernismo
In English Translation, with Spanish Text
"I was struck by how moving some of the translations are. These are among the very best translations of poetry from Spanish to English. This volume will be a wonderful...
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Editor(s): Kelly Washbourne
Translator(s): Kelly Washbourne with Sergio Waisman
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Approaches to Teaching Brontë's Jane Eyre
Taught more frequently than any of Charlotte Brontë's other novels, Jane Eyre presents distinct problems for the contemporary undergraduate instructor, one being the work's sheer length.
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Editor(s): Diane Long Hoeveler, Beth Lau
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Approaches to Teaching Byron's Poetry
As the volume editor, Frederick W. Shilstone, explains in his preface, this book originated in hallways, at conferences, and in classrooms, with colleagues and students "who share my enthusiasm for...
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Editor(s): Frederick W. Shilstone
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Approaches to Teaching Chopin's The Awakening
An MLA survey taken in preparation for this volume indicates that teachers are using The Awakening in no fewer than twenty areas of the college curriculum--from freshman writing and textual...
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Editor(s): Bernard Koloski
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Approaches to Teaching Dickens's Bleak House
"This splendid volume of essays does more to highlight Dickens's dazzling achievement in Bleak House than any critical intervention I have encountered. I found practices that will translate into my...
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Editor(s): John O. Jordan, Gordon Bigelow
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Approaches to Teaching Dickens' David Copperfield
The novels of Charles Dickens have attracted a wide and enthusiastic readership since they first appeared in the mid-nineteenth century, and in recent decades their social, biographical, and psychological elements...
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Editor(s): Richard J. Dunn
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Approaches to Teaching Dickinson's Poetry
The life and the range of topics and tones of Emily Dickinson suit her to be included in such courses as American literature, Romanticism, realism, nineteenth-century culture, and women's literary...
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Editor(s): Robin Riley Fast, Christine Mack Gordon
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Approaches to Teaching Duras's Ourika
"A treasure trove and a valuable resource for students, teachers, and scholars in a variety of fields." Margaret Waller, French Review "Professors and students in French will particularly want to...
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Editor(s): Mary Ellen Birkett, Christopher Rivers
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Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Middlemarch
Taught to undergraduates in introductory surveys as well as in specialized upper-division courses, Middlemarch presents challenges to both teachers and students--in its length, its rich philosophical and psychological insights, its...
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Editor(s): Kathleen Blake
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Approaches to Teaching Goethe's Faust
This volume provides help and encouragement to the teacher of Faust; it contains suggestions by teachers of German literature, Romance literatures, English and American literatures, comparative literature, history, and psychology.
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Editor(s): Douglas J. McMillan
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Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction
The British and American Traditions
Recent decades have seen a revival of scholarly interest in Gothic fiction. Critics are attracted to the genre's exploration of irrationality, to its dark representation of the bourgeois family and...
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Editor(s): Diane Long Hoeveler, Tamar Heller
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Approaches to Teaching Keats's Poetry
"Few poets are as congenial to undergraduates as Keats," write the volume editors. But they warn that if the poetry and the life and character of the poet are attractive...
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Editor(s): Walter H. Evert, Jack W. Rhodes
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Approaches to Teaching Melville's Moby-Dick
Pondering the physical and metaphysical implications of the whale's circulatory system, the narrator of Moby-Dick says, "But how easy and how hopeless to teach these fine things!"
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Editor(s): Martin Bickman
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Approaches to Teaching Poe's Prose and Poetry
"The essays provide practical activities that can be readily attempted by teachers who are open to a variety of pedagogical techniques—and who have been frustrated by students' preconceptions concerning Poe."...
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Editor(s): Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Tony Magistrale
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Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Although rarely found on college syllabi just two decades ago, Uncle Tom's Cabin is (according to an MLA survey) one of the most frequently named additions to nineteenth-century American literature...
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Editor(s): Elizabeth Ammons, Susan Belasco
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Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry
A central figure of the English Romantic movement and the author of scores of canonical works, William Wordsworth is a mainstay of literature courses ranging from freshmen surveys to upper-level...
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Editor(s): Spencer Hall, Jonathan Ramsey
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Confessions of a Poisoner, Written by Herself
"Whitinger and Spokeine’s work is a valuable contribution to the project of bringing lesser-known works to the attention of students and scholars." Sarah V. Eldridge, MLR "For students in German,...
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Translator(s): Raleigh Whitinger, Diana Spokiene
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Contemporary Galician Cultural Studies
Between the Local and the Global
"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...
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Editor(s): Kirsty Hooper, Manuel Puga Moruxa
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Dämmerung: Schauspiel in fünf Akten
Elsa Bernstein lived at the center of Munich's cultural life from the 1890s into the next century. Her literary salon was frequented by such authors as Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor...
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Author(s): Elsa Bernstein
Editor(s): Susanne Kord
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"El encaje roto" y otros cuentos
Although written a century ago, the sixteen stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán collected in this volume are strikingly relevant to contemporary concerns.
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Author(s): Emilia Pardo Bazán
Editor(s): Joyce Tolliver
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Gabriel: An English Translation
"Sand’s [play], with its probing of masculinity and femininity, its reflection on male and female education, love and friendship, women and the law . . . [is] an excellent addition...
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Author(s): George Sand
Translator(s): Kathleen Robin Hart, Paul Fenouillet
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Gabriel: The Original French Text
"Sand’s [play], with its probing of masculinity and femininity, its reflection on male and female education, love and friendship, women and the law . . . [is] an excellent addition...
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Author(s): George Sand
Editor(s): Kathleen Robin Hart
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Mademoiselle Giraud, ma femme
Adolphe Belot was the envy of his contemporaries Émile Zola and Gustave Flaubert: his books, unlike theirs, were best-sellers. He specialized in popular fiction that provided readers with just the...
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Author(s): Adolphe Belot
Editor(s): Christopher Rivers
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Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife
Adolphe Belot was the envy of his contemporaries Émile Zola and Gustave Flaubert: his books, unlike theirs, were best-sellers. He specialized in popular fiction that provided readers with just the...
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Author(s): Adolphe Belot
Translator(s): Christopher Rivers
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Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom
Pedagogical Strategies
Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom: Pedagogical Strategies investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom
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Editor(s): Charles J. Stivale
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Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress...
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Author(s): Rachilde
Editor(s): Melanie Hawthorne, Liz Constable
Translator(s): Melanie Hawthorne
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Monsieur Vénus: Roman matérialiste
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress...
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Author(s): Rachilde
Editor(s): Melanie Hawthorne, Liz Constable
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Nineteenth-Century American Literature Collection
The Nineteenth-Century American Literature Collection contains seven Approaches to Teaching volumes (click on each title to get book information). MLA members receive a 20% discount on Approaches collections. |
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Nineteenth-Century French Literature Collection
The Nineteenth-Century French Literature Collection contains five Approaches to Teaching volumes (click on each title to get book information). MLA members receive a 20% discount on Approaches collections. |
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Ourika: An English Translation
John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern...
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Author(s): Claire de Duras
Translator(s): John Fowles
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Ourika: The Original French Text
Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during...
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Author(s): Claire de Duras
Editor(s): Joan DeJean, Margaret Waller
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Sarah
An English Translation
"This edition of Sarah promises not only to expand the place of women's writing in the colonial archive but also to help bridge the gap between nineteenth- and twentieth-century francophone...
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Author(s): Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Translator(s): Deborah Jenson, Doris Y. Kadish
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Sarah
The Original French Text
"This edition of Sarah promises not only to expand the place of women's writing in the colonial archive but also to help bridge the gap between nineteenth- and twentieth-century francophone...
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Author(s): Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Editor(s): Deborah Jenson, Doris Y. Kadish
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Victorian Periodicals
A Guide to Research (volume 2)
Essays on the interdisciplinary nature of periodicals research.
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Editor(s): J. Don Vann, Rosemary T. VanArsdel
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Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
"This volume argues very powerfully that nineteenth-century American poetry encompasses much more than Whitman and Dickinson. This is an indispensable book and will be useful to both new and experienced...
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Editor(s): Paula Bernat Bennett, Karen L. Kilcup, Philipp Schwieghauser
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Teaching the Literatures of Early America
In this era of shifting geopolitical boundaries, numerous books and articles question what "American" literature is, what "the literary" is, and how what is called early American literature can best...
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Editor(s): Carla Mulford
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"Torn Lace" and Other Stories
Although written a century ago, the sixteen stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán collected in this volume are strikingly relevant to contemporary concerns.
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Author(s): Emilia Pardo Bazán
Translator(s): Maria Cristina Urruela
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The Transcendentalists
A Review of Research and Criticism
Essential for any collection of Americana, this volume is the first and only comprehensive bibliography of works on the Transcendentalists of the nineteenth century and their major contemporary critics.
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Editor(s): Joel Myerson
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Twilight: A Drama in Five Acts
Susanne Kord, the editor and translator of Twilight, discusses the reception of Bernstein's works--at first enthusiastic, then increasingly sexist--and the theme, in Twilight, of the culturally sanctioned oppression of women.
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Author(s): Elsa Bernstein
Translator(s): Susanne Kord
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Victorian Novels in Serial
This handy volume provides a general introduction to the practice, followed by many Victorian novelists, of publishing their works in installments in newspapers and magazines.
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Author(s): J. Don Vann
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Victorian Prose
A Guide to Research
Victorian nonfiction prose: the Carlyles, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Henry Newman, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, the Oxford Movement: 1833–45, the critics, the unbelievers, and Victorian...
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Editor(s): David J. DeLaura
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