Description: Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.
Brief description:
Dean de la Motte is assistant professor of French at Guilford College. He has published articles on nineteenth-century literature and culture; on Flaubert, Hugo, and Huysmans; and on bureaucracy, decadence, and utopia. He is coeditor of Making the News: Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France (forthcoming). He is at work on Going Nowhere Fast, a study of narratives of progress in nineteenth-century France.
Review Quotes:
The book is a valuable teaching tool and a pleasure to read as well. It contains a wealth of information and a variety of critical approaches conveniently gathered in a single source that normally would have to be extracted from many scattered documents. . . . [This] book provides a solid overview of the problems and pleasures related to reading Stendhal's novel.--Rocky Mountain Review