L.m. Montgomery Reader - Volume Two: A Critical Heritage

The L.M. Montgomery Reader traces the author’s enduring legacy as a Canadian icon and as a literary celebrity both during and beyond her lifetime.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: A Critical Heritage

BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE

A Note on the Text

1. Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874–1942 (1966)

ELIZABETH WATERSTON

2. The Fair World of L.M. Montgomery (1973)

HELEN PORTER

3. Anne of Green Gables and the Regional Idyll (1983)

T.D. MACLULICH

4. Little Orphan Mary: Anne’s Hoydenish Double (1989)

>ROSAMOND BAILEY

5. Subverting the Trite: L.M. Montgomery’s “Room of Her Own” (1992)

MARY RUBIO

6. Women’s Oral Narrative Traditions as Depicted in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Fiction, 1918–1939 (1993)

DIANE TYE

7. L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside: Intention, Inclusion, Implosion (1994)

OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS

8. Decoding L.M. Montgomery’s Journals / Encoding a Critical Practice for Women’s Private Literature (1994)

HELEN M. BUSS

9. “Fitted to Earn Her Own Living”: Figures of the New Woman in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery (1995)

CAROLE GERSON

10. “Pruned Down and Branched Out”: Embracing Contradiction in Anne of Green Gables (1995)

LAURA M. ROBINSON

11. Finding L.M. Montgomery’s Short Stories (1995)

REA WILMSHURST

12. L.M. Montgomery’s Manuscript Revisions (1995)

ELIZABETH EPPERLY

13. “My Secret Garden”: Dis/Pleasure in L.M. Montgomery and F.P. Grove (1999)

IRENE GAMMEL

14. Writing with a “Definite Purpose”: L.M. Montgomery, Nellie L. McClung and the Politics of Imperial Motherhood in Fiction for Children (2000)

CECILY DEVEREUX

15. Kinship and Nation in Amelia (1848) and Anne of Green Gables (1908) (2002)

MONIQUE DULL

16. The Maud Squad (2002)

CYNTHIA BROUSE

17. “The Golden Road of Youth”: L.M. Montgomery and British Children’s Books (2004)

JENNIFER H. LITSTER

18. Women at War: L.M. Montgomery, the Great War, and Canadian Cultural Memory (2008)

ANDREA MCKENZIE

19. Anne of Green Gables / Akage no An: The Flowers of Quiet Happiness (2008)

EMILY AOIFE SOMERS

20. Archival Adventures with L.M. Montgomery; or, “As Long as the Leaves Hold Together” (2012)

VANESSA BROWN AND BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE

Sources

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre

Summary

The L.M. Montgomery Reader traces the author’s enduring legacy as a Canadian icon and as a literary celebrity both during and beyond her lifetime.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Lefebvre
• Assisted by: Benjamin Lefebvre (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781487526030
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-2603-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: The L.M. Montgomery Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Kanada, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Canadian