L. M. Montgomery and gender / edited by E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pike, E. Holly, 1958- editor.

Robinson, Laura M., 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Montgomery, L. M.

Femininity in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The celebrated author receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Of interest to historians, feminists, gender scholars, scholars of literature, and Montgomery enthusiasts, this collection builds on current scholarship in its approach to the complexity of gender in the works of one of Canada's best-loved authors.

Contents:

Cover

L.M. MONTGOMERY AND GENDER

Title

Copyright

CONTENTS

Figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION "You Don't Want Me Because I'm Not a Boy": L.M. Montgomery and Gender

MASCULINITIES AND FEMININITIES

1 The White Feather: Gender and War in L.M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside

2 From "Uncanny Beauty" to "Uncanny Disease": Destabilizing Gender through the Deaths of Ruby Gillis and Walter Blythe and the Life of Anne Shirley

3 Barney of the Island: Nature and Gender in Montgomery's The Blue Castle

DOMESTIC SPACE

4 The Robinsonade versus the Annescapade: Exploring the "Adventure" in Anne of Green Gables

5 Soliciting Home: The Cultural Function of Orphans in Early Twentieth-Century Canada

6 "That House Belongs to Me": The Appropriation of Patriarchal Space in L.M. Montgomery's Emily Trilogy

HUMOUR

7 Cross-Dressing: Twins, Language, and Gender in L.M. Montgomery's Short Fiction

8 "I'm Noted for That": Comic Subversion and Gender in L.M. Montgomery's "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's" and "Aunt Philippa and the Men"

9 "Nora and I Got Through the Evening": Gender Roles and Romance in the Diary of L.M. Montgomery and Nora Lefurgey

INTERTEXTS

10 The Blue Castle: Sex and the Revisionist Fairy Tale

11 L.M. Montgomery, E. Pauline Johnson, and the Figure of the "Half-Breed Girl"

12 Orgies of Lovemaking: L.M. Montgomery's Feminine Version of the Augustinian Community

13 Feminizing Thomson's The Seasons: Identity, Gender, and Seasonal Aesthetics in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

BEING IN TIME

14 Her Reader

15 Like a Childless Mother: L.M. Montgomery and the Anguish of Mother's Loss

16 Magic for Marigold: Engendering Questions about What Lasts

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-2280-1017-9

0-2280-1016-0

OCLC:

1257427419