The L.M. Montgomery Reader : Volume Two: A Critical Heritage / Benjamin Lefebvre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lefebvre, Benjamin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Montgomery, L. M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Following on the heels of the first volume of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, this second volume narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery's (1874-1942) critical reputation in the seventy years since her death.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: A Critical Heritage; A Note on the Text; 1 Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874-1942 (1966); 2 The Fair World of L.M. Montgomery (1973); 3 Anne of Green Gables and the Regional Idyll (1983); 4 Little Orphan Mary: Anne's Hoydenish Double (1989); 5 Subverting the Trite: L.M. Montgomery's "Room of Her Own" (1992); 6 Women's Oral Narrative Traditions as Depicted in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Fiction, 1918-1939 (1993); 7 L.M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside: Intention, Inclusion, Implosion (1994).

8 Decoding L.M. Montgomery's Journals / Encoding a Critical Practice for Women's Private Literature (1994)9 "Fitted to Earn Her Own Living": Figures of the New Woman in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery (1995); 10 "Pruned Down and Branched Out": Embracing Contradiction in Anne of Green Gables (1995); 11 Finding L.M. Montgomery's Short Stories (1995); 12 L.M. Montgomery's Manuscript Revisions (1995); 13 "My Secret Garden": Dis/Pleasure in L.M. Montgomery and F.P. Grove (1999).

14 Writing with a "Definite Purpose": L.M. Montgomery, Nellie L. McClung and the Politics of Imperial Motherhood in Fiction for Children (2000)15 Kinship and Nation in Amelia (1848) and Anne of Green Gables (1908) (2002); 16 The Maud Squad (2002); 17 "The Golden Road of Youth": L.M. Montgomery and British Children's Books (2004); 18 Women at War: L.M. Montgomery, the Great War, and Canadian Cultural Memory (2008); 19 Anne of Green Gables / Akage no An: The Flowers of Quiet Happiness (2008); 20 Archival Adventures with L.M. Montgomery; or, "As Long as the Leaves Hold Together" (2012); Sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-436) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-6861-X

1-4426-6860-1

OCLC:

903441147