The Modern Language Association style guide (which, unlike Chicago, APA, or the AP style guide), [is the style guide used](http://subjectguides.library.american.edu/c.php?g=175008&p=1154150) [for academic writing](http://sites.umuc.edu/library/libhow/chicago_examples.cfm#style) [about literature](https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/618/03/). According to the MLA style guide, titles of books should be italicized. This is true even if the title of the book appears in the title of a paper about the book ([here is an example](http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jaesteduc.44.1.0044)). 

As a user on this site, I frequently put book titles in question titles. Could we have the ability to include italic text in question titles? I feel like this site should be able to support established conventions for writing about literature.

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NOTE: I am not asking for the following:

1. I do not want to edit other peoples' questions/answers because they do not conform to MLA guidelines. In fact, I don't care what format people put their titles in; it's a meaningless debate that I am not interested in having. **All I am asking for is the ability to follow MLA guidelines in my content**.
2. I realize that this feature request is difficult to implement technically, and I understand completely if Stack Exchange decides not to dedicate the resources to implementing it.