Children and childhoods in L.M. Montgomery : continuing conversations / edited by Rita Bode, Lesley D. Clement, E. Holly Pike, and Margaret Steffler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bode, Rita, 1950- editor.

Clement, Lesley D. (Lesley Diana), 1951- editor.

Pike, E. Holly (Elizabeth Holly), 1958- editor.

Steffler, Margaret, 1955- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942--Criticism and interpretation.

Montgomery, L. M.

Children in literature.

Canadian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"From Jane Austen to contemporary fanfiction and adaptations, literary portrayals of the child and imaginings of childhood are particularly telling indicators of cultural values and when they shift. Inspired by the responsive reading practices of L.M. Montgomery herself, those demonstrated by her characters and her diverse readership, Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery works with concepts of confluence, based on organic, non-linear readings of texts across time and space. Such readings reconsider views of childhood and children by challenging power hierarchies and inequities found in approaches that privilege more linear readings of literary influence. While acknowledging differences between childhood and adulthood, contributors emphasize kinship between child and adult as well as between past and present selves and use both scholarly approaches and creative reimagining to explore how the boundaries between different stages of life are blurred in Montgomery's writing. Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery addresses Montgomery's challenges to prescribed assumptions about childhood, while positioning her novels as essential texts in twenty-first century literary, childhood, and youth studies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Conversing with the Past: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Resilience

1. Emily of New Moon and Fanny of Mansfield Park: Childhood at Home in Jane Austen and L.M. Montgomery / Kate Scarth

2. L.M. Montgomery's Precocious Children: Resisting Adult Narratives of Death, Dying, and the Afterlife / Lesley D. Clement

3. Vulnerable Situations: Boys and Boyhood in the Emily Books / Rita Bode

pt. TWO Conversing with the Present: Fantasy, the Ideal, and the Real

4. The Performance of the Beautiful Dream Boy in Novels by L.M. Montgomery and Frances Hodgson Burnett / Margaret Steffler

5. Lost Boys and Lost Girls: The Kindred Offspring of J.M. Barrie and L.M. Montgomery / Bonnie J. Tulloch

6. Magic for Marigold, Childhood, and Fiction / E. Holly Pike

pt. THREE Continuing Literary Conversations: Transformative Relationships and Spaces

7. Loving, Larking, and Lying: Free-Spirited Children and Disciplinary Adults in the Works of L.M. Montgomery and Astrid Lindgren / Asa Warnqvist

8. Absent Fathers: Conversations between L.M. Montgomery and Madeleine L'Engle / Heidi A. Lawrence

9. Transformative Girlhood and Twenty-First-Century Girldom in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables / William V. Thompson

pt. FOUR Continuing Transmediated Conversations: Anime, Fanfiction, and Television Adaptations

10. The Problems and Possibilities Inherent in Adaptation: Emily of New Moon and Emily, Girl of the Wind / Yoshiko Akamatsu

11. Continuing Stories: L.M. Montgomery and Fanfiction in the Digital Era / Balaka Basu

12. Anne with an Edge: CBC-Netflix's Rereading of Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables / Laura M. Robinson

AFTERWORDS

Preface to the Afterwords / Margaret Steffler

Emily Kent

The Afterlife of Emily of New Moon / Vappu Kannas

Anne's Nature / Holly Cinnamon

My Maud / Rosalee Peppard Lockyer

Dear Maud / Kit Pearson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-328) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Children and childhoods in L.M. Montgomery.

ISBN:

0228013895

9780228013891

9780228013884

0228013887

OCLC:

1308394453