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Welcome to our virtual exhibit for the Modern Language Association! All of the books listed here are available to you at the meeting discount of 35% off list price plus free shipping. Click on the buy buttons below and use the promotional code EX58194 in the shopping cart to get 35% off physical books.*

Books in this field are acquired by Alan Thomas.

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Featured Books

The Opinionated University

Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education

Brian Soucek

Wild Fictions

Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment

Amitav Ghosh

Reasons and Feelings

Writing for the Humanities Now

Sarah Mesle

Theater after Film

Martin Harries

Getting It Published, Fourth Edition

A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious About Serious Books

William Germano

Slips of the Mind

Poetry as Forgetting

Jennifer Soong

Reading Hegel

Irony, Recollection, Critique

Robert Lucas Scott

The Barthes Fantastic

Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language

John Lurz

Pragmatics of Democracy

A Political Theory of African American Literature Before Emancipation

Douglas A. Jones

Action without Hope

Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse

Nathan K. Hensley

Realism after the Individual

Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel

Rafael Walker

Beyond Individualism

Portraying Collective Selfhood in Latin American Literature and Art

Lois Parkinson Zamora

A Will for the Machine

Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa

Mark Sanders

Novel Ecologies

Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech

Allison Carruth

Atlas’s Bones

The African Foundations of Europe

D. Vance Smith

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature

Julie Singer

Fictions of God

English Renaissance Literature and the Invention of the Biblical Narrator

Raphael Magarik

In the Future of Yesterday

A Life of Stefan Zweig

Rüdiger Görner

Katherine Mansfield

A Hidden Life

Gerri Kimber

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