Elizabeth Brookbank and H. Faye Christenberry. MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature. New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America, 2019. 137p. Paper, $16.00 (ISBN 9781603294362). LC 2019011165.

Abstract

Over the decades, the Modern Language Association has consistently published guides to scholarship—typically, edited compilations of essays to initiate beginning philologists into the contemporary landscape of scholarly engagement with literature and the other philological disciplines. These guides offer overviews of the major disciplines and subdisciplines, assert and attest to the value of scholarship in those disciplines, summarize the impactful current ideas and thinking of influential scholars and writers doing that work, and provide insight into the perspectives of those scholars—with examples of how their ideas and perspectives have been applied to scholarship.