PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Since 1884, PMLA has published members' essays judged to be of interest to scholars and teachers of language and literature. Four issues each year (January, March, May, and October) present essays on language and literature; a Directory issue (September) contains a listing of the association's members, a directory of departmental administrators, and other professional information; and the November issue is the program for the association's annual convention. Each issue of PMLA is sent directly to the nearly 30,000 college and university teachers of English and foreign languages who belong to the association and to about 3,000 libraries throughout the world.
January 2006 (Volume 121, Number 1)
Special Topic: The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature - Coordinated by Seth Lerer and Leah Price
Leah Price, Introduction: Reading Matter
Jody Greene, Francis Kirkman's Counterfeit Authority: Autobiography, Subjectivity, Print
Coleman Hutchison, Breaking the Book Known as Q
Matthew P. Brown, The Thick Style: Steady Sellers, Textual Aesthetics, and Early Modern Devotional Reading
Paula McDowell, Defoe and the Contagion of the Oral: Modeling Media Shift in A Journal of the Plague Year
Lorraine Piroux, The Encyclopedist and the Peruvian Princess: The Poetics of Illegibility in French Enlightenment Book Culture
Andrew Piper, Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything
Alexander Des Forges, Burning with Reverence: The Economics and Aesthetics of Words in Qing (1644-1911) China
Beth A. McCoy, Race and the (Para)Textual Condition
John G. Nichols, Ezra Pound's Poetic Anthologies and the Architecture of Reading
Evan Brier, Constructing the Postwar Art Novel: Paul Bowles, James Laughlin, and the Making of The Sheltering Sky
Alice Brittan, War and the Book: The Diarist, the Cryptographer, and The English Patient
Peter D. McDonald, Ideas of the Book and Histories of Literature: After Theory?
Seth Lerer, Epilogue: Falling Asleep over the History of the Book
Little-Known Documents
Are Too Many Books Written and Published? (1927), Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. Introduction by Melba Cuddy-Keane
Marie of the Cabin Club (1939), Ann Petry. Introduction by Gene Jarrett
Theories and Methodologies
Linda Martín Alcoff, The Unassimilated Theorist
Debra A. Castillo, Anzaldúa and Transnational American Studies
María Herrera-Sobek, Gloria Anzaldúa: Place, Race, Language, and Sexuality in the Magic Valley
Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Bridging Islands: Gloria Anzaldúa and the Caribbean
Tey Diana Rebolledo, Prietita y el Otro Lado: Gloria Anzaldúa's Literature for Children
Ivy Schweitzer, For Gloria Anzaldúa: Collecting America, Performing Friendship
Silvia Spitta, The Contingencies of Life and Reading: Para Gloria
Ian Barnard, Judith Butler, John DeFrancis, Harold Fromm, James D. Hoff, Burton Pike, Robert Scholes, and Gang Zhou, Forum
Minutes of the MLA Executive Council
In Memoriam
Index of Advertisers
Index of Authors Advertised
Abstracts