Children and childhoods in L.M. Montgomery : continuing conversations / edited by Rita Bode [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bode, Rita, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Canadian literature.

Canadian literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 338 pages)

Other Title:

Children and childhoods in L.M. Montgomery

Place of Publication:

Montreal : 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:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations Used in Notes

Introduction

Part 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

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

3 Vulnerable Situations: Boys and Boyhood in the Emily Books

Part 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

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

6 Magic for Marigold, Childhood, and Fiction

Part 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

8 Absent Fathers: Conversations between L.M. Montgomery and Madeleine L'Engle 9 Transformative Girlhood and Twenty-First-Century Girldom in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

Part 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

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

12 Anne with an Edge: CBC-Netflix's Rereading of Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

Afterwords

Preface to the Afterwords

Emily Kent

The Afterlife of Emily of New Moon

Anne's Nature My Maud by Katie Maurice

Dear Maud

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-2280-1483-2

OCLC:

1317698396