L. M. Montgomery's "Emily of New Moon" : a children's classic at 100 / edited by Yan Du and Joe Sutliff Sanders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Du, Yan (Children's author), editor.

Sanders, Joe Sutliff, editor.

Series:

Children's Literature Association series

Children's literature association series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942. Emily of New Moon.

Montgomery, L. M.

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

Canadian literature--20th century.

Canadian literature.

Children's stories, Canadian--History and criticism.

Children's stories, Canadian.

Children--Books and reading--Canada--History--20th century.

Children.

Orphans in literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024]

Summary:

"Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian author best known for writing the wildly popular Anne of Green Gables. At the time of its publication in 1908, it was an immediate bestseller and launched Montgomery to fame. Less known than the dreamy and accidentally mischievous Anne Shirley is Emily Byrd Starr, the title character in the trilogy that followed much later in Montgomery's professional career, Emily of New Moon. Published in 1923, Emily of New Moon is the first in a series of novels about an orphan girl growing up on Prince Edward Island, a story that mirrors Anne's but intentionally resists many of the defining qualities of Montgomery's most famous creation. Despite being overshadowed by the immense popularity of Anne of Green Gables, the Emily of New Moon trilogy has become a subject of endless fascination to fans and scholars around the world. The trilogy was conceived during an important phase in Montgomery's career during which she turned from Anne and plunged into more intricate aspects of gender, adolescence, nature, and authorship. While the novels have attracted rich critical attention since their publication, book-length studies proved surprisingly scarce. L. M. Montgomery's "Emily of New Moon": A Children's Classic at 100 is the first scholarly volume exclusively dedicated to the trilogy, coalescing different research perspectives. It offers a fresh point of entrance into a well-loved classic at its one-hundredth anniversary"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Yan Du and Joe Sutliff Sanders

Chapter 1. Warring with failure: "Emily's Quest" and the Victorian past / Kate Lawson

Chapter 2. Exile and instrumentality in the Emily books / Jessica Wen Hui Lim

Chapter 3. Emily Byrd Starr meets Brené Brown: "Braving the Wilderness" and achieving "True Belonging" / Lesley D. Clement

Chapter 4. Everyday objects: material culture in the Emily trilogy / Allison McBain Hudson

Chapter 5. "Something incalculably precious": diary writing in "Emily of New Moon" / Lindsey McMaster

Chapter 6. The Japanese reception of the Emily trilogy through translation / Yoshiko Akamatsu

Chapter 7. Claiming and reclaiming the maternal: mothering and mothers in the Emily books / Rita Bode

Chapter 8. "A ghost you can 'feel" and "hear' but never 'see'": queer hauntings in "Emily of New Moon" / Katharine Slater

Chapter 9. The romance of history in the Emily novels / E. Holly Pike

Chapter 10. Encroaching darkness: L.M. Montgomery's books about Emily / Carol L. Beran

Chapter 11. Reading Emily out of time and place: breaking chronology and space / Margaret Steffler

Chapter 12. Emily's afterlives: trauma, repetition, and (re)reading in "Emily of New Moon" and "Russian Doll" / Anastasia Ulanowicz

About the contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: L. m. montgomery's "emily of new moon"

ISBN:

9781496852496

1496852494

9781496852502

1496852508

OCLC:

1411220456