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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 30% off list price plus free shipping. Click on the buy buttons below and use the promotional code EX57880 in the shopping cart to get 30% off physical books.*

Books in this field are acquired by Alan Thomas.

Ebook discount: Most of the books published by the University of Chicago Press are also available in ebook form from our website. To get a 20% discount on ebooks published by the University of Chicago Press, use promotional code UCPXEB during checkout. (UCPXEB only applies to full-priced ebooks published by the University of Chicago Press.)

We also welcome you to browse our Journal division's literary studies journals. Enjoy a selection of free articles and a 20% discount on most subscriptions with code UCPJ20.** Our journals include Critical Inquiry, The Wordsworth Circle, Modern Philology, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, and The Sixteenth Century Journal

*This offer is valid until March 12, 2025. For titles where paperback and cloth versions are available, the discount only applies to the paperback.

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The Chicago Booth at MLA

Featured Books

On Close Reading

John Guillory

Throw Yourself Away

Writing and Masochism

Julia Jarcho

In Poe’s Wake

Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric

Jonathan Elmer

Amphion

Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity

Leah Middlebrook

Glorious Bodies

Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature

Colby Gordon

John Donne’s Physics

Elizabeth D. Harvey

The Likeness of Things Unlike

A Poetics of Incommensurability

Sharon Cameron

Something Speaks to Me

Where Criticism Begins

Michel Chaouli

The Kinds of Poetry I Want

Essays & Comedies

Charles Bernstein

The Great Zoo

A Bilingual Edition

Nicolás Guillén

On James Baldwin

Colm Toibin

Zora Neale Hurston

Cheryl R. Hopson

The New Queer Gothic

Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film

Robyn Ollett

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