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		Approaches to Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, with sales exceeding three million copies, is one of the most widely read works of contemporary fiction. A classic of African literature, it is taught... more info Editor(s): Bernth Lindfors $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition In Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition, instructors who have taught Arthurian material in contexts from high school to graduate school draw on their experience to address a range of... more info Editor(s): Maureen Fries, Jeanie Watson $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Other Works Margaret Atwood's works, especially The Handmaid's Tale, are widely taught not only in literature courses but also in economics, political science, sociology, film, and business courses. ... more info Editor(s): Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, Shannon Hengen Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Austen's Emma Critics of Austen's Emma have remarked on both its pleasures and its difficulties. ... more info Editor(s): Marcia McClintock Folsom Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Austen's Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is one of the most popular and widely taught works of English literature. ... more info Editor(s): Marcia McClintock Folsom $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Balzac's Old Goriot Old Goriot is not only the most read of Balzac's works but also one of the most commonly taught of all French novels. This collection of essays, as the editor... more info Editor(s): Michal Peled Ginsburg Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) may be the most influential, and perhaps the greatest, book of lyric poetry in French literature. ... more info Editor(s): Laurence M. Porter Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Beckett's Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot offers as much of a challenge in the classroom today as it did to its early audiences in the 1950s. It has become "the centerpiece of a... more info Editor(s): June Schlueter, Enoch Brater $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Beowulf During recent decades, the study of Beowulf has flourished in liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and high schools. Useful for new instructors as well as medieval scholars, this collection of... more info Editor(s): Jess B. Bessinger, Jr., Robert F. Yeager $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience Responses to a survey conducted for this volume indicate that most teachers of Blake begin with Songs of Innocence and of Experience; the work is included in the syllabi of... more info Editor(s): Robert F. Gleckner, Mark L. Greenberg Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron Boccaccio's highly teachable work is easily excerpted, and the essays in this collection describe stimulating ways to introduce these tales to undergraduates. ... more info Editor(s): James H. McGregor Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period Although British women poets such as Charlotte Turner Smith, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Felicia Hemans were influential and widely acknowledged during the Romantic period, only recently have many scholars and... more info Editor(s): Stephen C. Behrendt, Harriet Kramer Linkin $19.75
		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. ... more info Editor(s): Diane Long Hoeveler, Beth Lau $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights "Wuthering Heights is a major literary text taught in a wide variety of courses, from freshman writing courses to graduate seminars. This excellent addition to the MLA Approaches to Teaching... more info Editor(s): Sue Lonoff, Terri A. Hasseler Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		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... more info Editor(s): Frederick W. Shilstone $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Camus's The Plague Thirty-five years ago Germaine Brée wrote that The Plague "is, within its limits, a great novel, the most disturbing, most moving novel yet to have come out of the chaos... more info Editor(s): Steven G. Kellman $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Cather's My Ántonia Unlike many other great works of English literature, My Ántonia is immediately accessible to today's students. "Cather's novel is so clear," Susan J. Rosowski says, "so apparently effortless, that it... more info Editor(s): Susan J. Rosowski Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Cervantes' Don Quixote Approaches to Teaching Cervantes' Don Quixote brings together resources and strategies for teaching the novel to undergraduates. ... more info Editor(s): Richard Bjornson Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems "Since the works in question are seldom taught to undergraduates, this wonderful collection of essays will be invaluable to prospective teachers who are eager to share the wealth of the... more info Editor(s): Tison Pugh, Angela Jane Weisl Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales The inaugural volume in the MLA's popular Approaches to Teaching World Literature series comprises bibliographic and instructional essays devoted to the first great English poet. ... more info Editor(s): Joseph Gibaldi $19.75
		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... more info Editor(s): Bernard Koloski $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Coleridge's Poetry and Prose Richard Matlak, the editor of this Approaches volume, depicts Coleridge as both a model student and an accomplished teacher. ... more info Editor(s): Richard E. Matlak Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Collodi's Pinocchio and Its Adaptations "Sherberg has gathered an array of scholars in various disciplines to approach Collodi's famous work from the multiple perspectives the text itself demands. . . . [These] essays will be... more info Editor(s): Michael Sherberg Paper ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Sharer" Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Sharer" are among the most taught and studied works of twentieth-century British fiction. ... more info Editor(s): Hunt Hawkins, Brian W. Shaffer $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy The contributors to this collection believe that Dante can be enjoyed by college students at every level whether or not they are literature or language majors. ... more info Editor(s): Carole Slade Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Defoe's Robinson Crusoe Long a centerpiece of eighteenth-century literary studies and a significant influence on the fiction of its day, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe remains a standard text for teaching the period and continues... more info Editor(s): Maximillian E. Novak, Carl Fisher Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise "I believe that this collection of essays will be of great value to instructors of White Noise. The essays in the volume are lively, accessible, opinionated (in a good sense),... more info Editor(s): Tim Engles, John N. Duvall Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		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... more info Editor(s): John O. Jordan, Gordon Bigelow Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		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... more info Editor(s): Richard J. Dunn Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		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... more info Editor(s): Robin Riley Fast, Christine Mack Gordon Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass One of the most frequently taught slave narratives, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is assigned in many courses, including American and African American literature, African American studies, women's... more info Editor(s): James C. Hall $19.75
		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... more info Editor(s): Mary Ellen Birkett, Christopher Rivers Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama "These master teachers share years of experience in bringing important works to life for students who can then make connections to our modern dilemmas and values. This rich volume is... more info Editor(s): Laura R. Bass, Margaret R. Greer Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		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... more info Editor(s): Kathleen Blake Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays According to a survey of English teachers, most students are introduced to T. S. Eliot's poetry during the first two years of college. ... more info Editor(s): Jewel Spears Brooker Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry This collection of essays presents materials and strategies for helping students and teachers share in the enjoyment of Elizabethan poetry. ... more info Editor(s): Patrick Cheney, Anne Lake Prescott Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Ellison's Invisible Man Teachers of Invisible Man differ about which aspect of Ralph Ellison's novel deserves the most emphasis. According to Susan Resneck Parr, a coeditor of this volume, "some [teachers] argue that... more info Editor(s): Susan Resneck Parr, Pancho Savery $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama This volume explores the compelling dramatic techniques and rich language found in a wide variety of both well-known and less-familiar Renaissance plays. ... more info Editor(s): Karen Bamford, Alexander Leggat Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich This volume seeks to enrich teachers--and students--understanding of the fictional world Louise Erdrich creates and to address the challenges of teaching her novels and poetry. ... more info Editor(s): Greg Sarris, Connie A. Jacobs, James R. Giles $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching the Dramas of Euripides Known for their fully drawn characters, artistic complexity, and a multifaceted engagement with social issues, the plays of Euripides inspire divergent critical views. ... more info Editor(s): Robin Mitchell-Boyask Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying "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... more info Editor(s): Patrick O'Donnell, Lynda Zwinger Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury The works of William Faulkner have become part of the undergraduate canon in the decades since he received the Nobel Prize in 1950. While many of Faulkner's novels and stories... more info Editor(s): Stephen Hahn, Arthur F. Kinney $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby "Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby offers instructors a resource they did not have before—a comprehensive guidebook with materials and approaches for more scholarly instruction." F. Scott Fitzgerald Review... more info Editor(s): Jackson R. Bryer, Nancy P. VanArsdale Cloth ($37.50) Paperback ($19.75)
		Approaches to Teaching Flaubert's Madame Bovary According to the editors of this collection of essays, Madame Bovary is "arguably the greatest novel of nineteenth-century France." ... more info Editor(s): Laurence M. Porter, Eugene F. Gray $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude Critics have read One Hundred Years of Solitude as a cultural document, as a revolutionary narrative, and as a high point of early postmodernism. ... more info Editor(s): María Elena de Valdés, Mario J. Valdés $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and Herland Although the rediscovery in 1973 of the long-forgotten story "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, met an enthusiastic reception, no one expected the enormous impact it would have,... more info Editor(s): Denise D. Knight, Cynthia J. Davis Paperback ($37.50) Hardcover ($19.75)
		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. ... more info Editor(s): Douglas J. McMillan Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		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... more info Editor(s): Diane Long Hoeveler, Tamar Heller $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Grass's The Tin Drum "Indispensible to any teacher preparing to tackle Grass’s challenging novel." Deutsch: Lehren und Lernen The career of Günter Grass began dramatically in 1959, with the publication of his first... more info Editor(s): Monika Shafi Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching H.D.’s Poetry and Prose "An impressive volume . . . I am struck by the richness and variety of approaches to teaching H.D." Cynthia Hogue, Arizona State University The poet Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)... more info Editor(s): Annette Debo, Lara Vetter Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Hebrew Bible as Literature in Translation Literary-critical approaches to the Hebrew Bible have influenced courses in secondary schools, colleges, and universities throughout North America--and courses in a variety of disciplines, including English, Hebrew, comparative literature, theology,... more info Editor(s): Barry N. Olshen, Yael S. Feldman $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Henry James's Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw, two of Henry James's most frequently taught works, have great appeal to both students and instructors. ... more info Editor(s): Kimberly C. Reed, Peter G. Beidler Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($19.75)
		Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Homer's epics usually appear first in anthologies used for the general literature courses required of most college and high school students throughout the country. ... more info Editor(s): Kostas Myrsiades $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Other Works "A worthwhile pick for literary collections." Midwest Book Review "The strength of this volume is that it presents Hurston's work from a variety of perspectives and thus conveys to teachers... more info Editor(s): John Lowe Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Ibsen's A Doll House Since its publication over a century ago, A Doll House has often been narrowly read as a single-thesis play--as a commentary on women's rights. ... more info Editor(s): Yvonne Shafer $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson The works of Samuel Johnson--in particular, the famous Dictionary and the Lives of the Poets--have long held a central place in the English curriculum. ... more info Editor(s): David R. Anderson, Gwin J. Kolb Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Joyce's Ulysses Ulysses is generally recognized as the most influential of all modernist literary texts, and seven decades after its publication the novel continues to fascinate, tease, and engage students. ... more info Editor(s): Kathleen McCormick, Erwin R. Steinberg Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Kafka's Short Fiction Ever since English-speaking readers "discovered" Kafka in the 1950s, his works have been a cornerstone of undergraduate world literature studies. ... more info Editor(s): Richard T. Gray $19.75
		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... more info Editor(s): Walter H. Evert, Jack W. Rhodes $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Kingston's The Woman Warrior One of the goals of Approaches to Teaching Kingston's The Woman Warrior is "to introduce teachers and students to the larger body of Asian American and ethnic literature [and] to... more info Editor(s): Shirley Geok-lin Lim Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Lafayette's The Princess of Clèves Frequently identified in French literary histories as the first modern novel--that is, the first to focus on its characters' thoughts and feelings instead of their heroic actions--Lafayette's La Princesse de... more info Editor(s): Faith E. Beasley, Katharine Ann Jensen Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Works of D. H. Lawrence Lawrence's forceful language, imagery, and rhythms can make readers feel they are being attacked or challenged. ... more info Editor(s): M. Elizabeth Sargent, Garry Watson Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Tradition "The collection of essays may be most fruitful for those teachers, whether experienced or novice, who are exploring ways to teach Lazarillo and the Spanish picaresque in an interdisciplinary context."... more info Editor(s): Anne J. Cruz Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Lessing's The Golden Notebook When The Golden Notebook was published in 1962, Irving Howe called it "the most exciting piece of new fiction" produced in the decade. ... more info Editor(s): Carey Kaplan, Ellen Cronan Rose Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Mann's Death in Venice and Other Short Fiction Widely taught in undergraduate and graduate courses, the works of Thomas Mann, the 1929 Nobel Prize laureate for literature, continue to fascinate readers. ... more info Editor(s): Jeffrey B. Berlin Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron "It will greatly benefit those who face the challenging pedagogical endeavor of making the study of the Heptameron accessible and rewarding." Sixteenth Century Journal "This text is a superb contribution... more info Editor(s): Colette H. Winn Hardcover ($37.50) Paperback ($19.75)
		Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama Anyone who has recently attended a professional meeting devoted to medieval drama or witnessed a revival of a medieval play knows that the genre is alive and flourishing. ... more info Editor(s): Richard K. Emmerson Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		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!" ... more info Editor(s): Martin Bickman Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Metaphysical Poets Using the now controversial designation metaphysical as a term to be debated or dissected, this book helps teachers with the classroom process of discriminating among the metaphysical and other poems... more info Editor(s): Sidney Gottlieb $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Miller's Death of a Salesman "If one were to hazard a guess as to what American play is the most studied at the university level," writes Matthew C. Roudané, "it might not be too fanciful... more info Editor(s): Matthew C. Roudané Cloth ($37.50) Paperback ($19.75)
		Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost (First Edition) Of all Milton's works, Paradise Lost is his supreme and most influential accomplishment, but the scope of the epic, the difficulties in its form, and the strangeness of its contexts... more info Editor(s): Galbraith M. Crump Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost (Second Edition) “This is an exemplary anthology of essays, all of them anchored in pedagogical concerns.” Joseph Wittreich Graduate Center, City University of New York This second edition of Approaches to... more info Editor(s): Peter C. Herman Cloth ($37.50) Paperback ($19.75)
		Approaches to Teaching Milton's Shorter Poetry and Prose "This volume offers fledgling, even veteran, teachers an abundance of wisdom. . . . Herman and the MLA are to be congratulated for this fine book. Highly recommended." Choice ".... more info Editor(s): Peter C. Herman Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Molière's Tartuffe and Other Plays The plays of Molière are immensely popular with both teachers and students, perhaps because, as the editors of this collection of essays observe, they are "immediately accessible despite their being... more info Editor(s): James F. Gaines, Michael S. Koppisch Cloth ($37.50) Paperback ($19.75)
		Approaches to Teaching Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain The 1969 Pulitzer Prize winner for literature, N. Scott Momaday is considered one of the greatest of twentieth-century Native American writers. ... more info Editor(s): Kenneth M. Roemer $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Montaigne's Essays Debated and discussed by countless writers and readers during the last four hundred years, Montaigne's Essays constitutes the first example of a major new literary genre and originates the moralist... more info Editor(s): Patrick Henry Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison Teachers started assigning the novels of Toni Morrison long before she won the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature and before there was a significant body of secondary literature on the... more info Editor(s): Nellie Y. McKay, Kathryn Earle $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji Arguably the most important work of premodern Japanese literature, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji is a fictional narrative of courtly life in ancient Japan. ... more info Editor(s): Edward Kamens Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Nabokov's Lolita "Professors Kuzmanovich and Diment have compiled a volume that can only improve the teaching of Nabokov’s best-known work." Slavic and East European Journal "The volume provides a wide array of... more info Editor(s): Zoran Kuzmanovich, Galya Diment Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson "The editors have done a superb job of bringing together a distinguished but fresh group of contributors and opinions...a thoughtful total volume." J. Paul Hunter University of Virginia The... more info Editor(s): Jocelyn Harris, Lisa Zunshine Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		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."... more info Editor(s): Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Tony Magistrale Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Pope's Poetry Pope's poetry, the editors of this collection suggest, "provides...an index to social criticism, to enlightened religious belief, to witty and vivacious writing, and to the bearing of much of the... more info Editor(s): Wallace Jackson, R. Paul Yoder Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Proust's Fiction and Criticism Since the first volume of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu was published, in 1913, the work has challenged readers and critics by stretching the genre of the novel:... more info Editor(s): Elyane Dezon-Jones, Inge Crosman Wimmers Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman "This is a remarkable collection of first-rate essays. The various discourses and approaches—political, sexual, intertexual, cinematic—all bounce off each other well and inform each other." Bruce Williams, William Paterson University... more info Editor(s): Daniel Balderston, Francine Masiello Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works "This helpful volume will benefit all who engage with Pynchon's work. Highly recommended." Choice "Highly recommended for college library literary studies collections." Midwest Book Review The Crying of Lot 49,... more info Editor(s): Thomas H. Schaub Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of the Solitary Walker Rousseau is read, literally, all over the world. Given the enormous place autobiographical writing has come to occupy in literary studies, his influence is not surprising. ... more info Editor(s): John C. O'Neal, Ourida Mostefai Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels "The contributors show teachers who are perhaps coming to Scott for the first time not simply how to teach Scott but also why they should." Peter J. Manning, Stony Brook... more info Editor(s): Evan Gottlieb, Ian Duncan Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet For centuries Hamlet has been a source of inspiration for readers and audiences. The play's characters fascinated Romantic critics from Goethe to Coleridge, its themes interested psychoanalytic theorists from Freud... more info Editor(s): Bernice W. Kliman Cloth ($37.50) Paperback ($19.75)
		Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's King Lear Perhaps Shakespeare's greatest play, King Lear is likely the one most often taught at the undergraduate level, but many instructors agree that it may also be the most daunting to... more info Editor(s): Robert H. Ray Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello "This collection of essays is outstanding. Its great variety of topics and approaches should enable any teacher at any level...to find some ideas and techniques that can be incorporated into... more info Editor(s): Peter Erickson, Maurice Hunt $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Taught widely in high school and college, Romeo and Juliet may be Shakespeare's most accessible work. Teenagers and young adults identify with the play's interfamilial conflict, the love story, and... more info Editor(s): Maurice Hunt Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's The Tempest and Other Late Romances This collection of essays, the second Approaches volume devoted to Shakespeare covers four of the Bard's later plays: The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, and Pericles. ... more info Editor(s): Maurice Hunt Cloth ($37.50) Paperback ($19.75)
		Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is both a literary work very much rooted in its age and a cultural artifact that transcends period. ... more info Editor(s): Stephen C. Behrendt $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Poetry Shelley's poetry, admits Steven E. Jones in the Keats-Shelley Journal, has proved "difficult to study and to teach well." ... more info Editor(s): Spencer Hall Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight One of the most widely taught medieval English poems, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight still provides many challenges for teachers. ... more info Editor(s): Miriam Youngerman Miller, Jane Chance Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Spenser's Faerie Queene The epic poem's archaic language, formal structure, historical references, and literary allusions all present special challenges to both student and teacher--challenges that the contributors to this book believe can be... more info Editor(s): David Lee Miller, Alexander Dunlop $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Stendhal's The Red and the Black "A novel is a mirror moving along a highway," writes Stendhal in The Red and the Black, his chronicle of French Restoration politics, class, and society on the eve of... more info Editor(s): Dean de la Motte, Stirling Haig Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Sterne's Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne never would have imagined, according to the volume editor Melvyn New, "that The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy would two hundred years later be read in classrooms... more info Editor(s): Melvyn New Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		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... more info Editor(s): Elizabeth Ammons, Susan Belasco Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Swift's Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World--more commonly known as Gulliver's Travels--is rightly considered one of literature's great satires. ... more info Editor(s): Edward J. Rielly Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Ávila and the Spanish Mystics "I found the essays as well as the discussion of the evaluation process very stimulating from a pedagogical perspective. I also appreciated the volume's interdisciplinary orientation through its inclusion of... more info Editor(s): Alison Weber Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower "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... more info Editor(s): R. F. Yeager, Brian W. Gastle Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Song of Roland "The depth and breadth of this volume are impressive, as much for the different subjects broached as for the range of specialists who participated in its creation. I particularly appreciate... more info Editor(s): William W. Kibler, Leslie Zarker Morgan Each book contains a CD featuring performances of the Song of Roland. Paper ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber) “A truly instructive volume of diverse studies on a range of subjects that does justice to the novel’s own representational diversity and plenitude of culture.” Anthony C. Yu, University of... more info Editor(s): Andrew Schonebaum, Tina Lu Cloth ($37.50) Paperback ($19.75)
		Approaches to Teaching the Works of François Rabelais "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... more info Editor(s): Todd W. Reeser, Floyd Gray Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz “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... more info Editor(s): Waïl S. Hassan, Susan Muaddi Darraj Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o “Lovesey’s collection of essays is exemplary. It covers the full range of Ngũgĩ’s output both as a creative writer and as a critic, and it focuses on texts that are... more info Editor(s): Oliver Lovesey Cloth ($37.50) Paperback ($19.75)
		Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde "This is an exceptionally rich and comprehensive collection. Many will consult it for scholarly insights alone; those who read it for ideas on teaching Wilde will find a gold mine."... more info Editor(s): Philip E. Smith ll Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition "This book is unusually helpful to the broad teaching community. It will be welcomed by classicists, teachers of literature in many languages, historians of gender, historians of visual arts, and... more info Editor(s): Barbara Weiden Boyd, Cora Fox $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson “For teachers of Stevenson from K–12 through graduate study . . . first-rate scholars provide a sophisticated overview of his wide-ranging literary output.” Joseph McLaughlin, Ohio University Although Robert... more info Editor(s): Caroline McCracken-Flesher Cloth ($37.50) Paperback ($19.75)
		Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz "These articles are well organized and well written and provide useful teaching strategies to convey the seventeenth-century Sor Juana and her work to twenty-first-century students on both the graduate and... more info Editor(s): Emilie L. Bergmann, Stacey Schlau Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O’Brien "This new Approaches collection is both for aficionados of Tim O’Brien (and Vietnam literature) and for those with somewhat broader literary interests. I have nothing but glowing praise for its... more info Editor(s): Alex Vernon, Catherine Calloway Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas "This volume brings Las Casas's bold debates into twenty-first-century classrooms. It meets an urgent and long overdue need with contributions of high quality and extraordinary usefulness across a wide spectrum... more info Editor(s): Santa Arias, Eyda M. Merediz Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Thoreau's Walden and Other Works In a recent survey of college teachers, Walden was mentioned more frequently than any other work as a text regularly included in nineteenth-century American literature courses. ... more info Editor(s): Richard J. Schneider Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's Anna Karenina Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is probably the most often taught nineteenth-century Russian novel in the American academy. ... more info Editor(s): Liza Knapp, Amy Mandelker Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Vergil's Aeneid Vergil's Aeneid has been the most continually read and discussed work by a Roman author in the history of Western literature. Yet it can be a challenging work to teach--Vergil... more info Editor(s): William S. Anderson, Lorina N. Quartarone $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Voltaire's Candide "Candide is probably the most frequently taught work of French literature," writes Renée Waldinger, yet "students are often misled by the apparent simplicity of the tale." ... more info Editor(s): Renée Waldinger Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Whitman's Leaves of Grass Called the great poet of America by the writer Max Eastman in 1943, Walt Whitman has in the past few decades secured a largely unchallenged place in the literary canon. ... more info Editor(s): Donald D. Kummings Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night "Rosen's collection is a valuable source for teachers, providing multiple perspectives and insight into the many levels of interpretation of a seminal Holocaust memoir." S. Lillian Kremer, author, Women's Holocaust... more info Editor(s): Alan Rosen Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway "Whether teaching the novel for the first or twentieth time, whether in an undergraduate survey course or a doctoral seminar on Virginia Woolf, teachers will be thrilled to have such... more info Editor(s): Eileen Barrett and Ruth O. Saxton Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Woolf's To the Lighthouse Many instructors find Woolf's fifth novel her most accessible because it grapples with issues that interest students. The essays in this collection show how teachers can tackle the often threatening... more info Editor(s): Beth Rigel Daugherty, Mary Beth Pringle $19.75
		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... more info Editor(s): Spencer Hall, Jonathan Ramsey $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Wright's Native Son Richard Wright predicted that Bigger Thomas, his most powerful literary creation, would become "a symbolic figure of American life, a figure who would hold within him the prophecy of our... more info Editor(s): James A. Miller Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)