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1 online resource (xii, 398 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| Summary |
"The celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Nineteen contributors take a variety of critical and theoretical positions, from historical analyses of the White Feather campaign and discussions of adoption to medical discourses of death and disease, explorations of Montgomery's use of humour, and the author's rewriting of masculinist traditions. The essays span Montgomery's writing, exploring her famous Anne and Emily books as well as her short fiction, her comic journal composed with her friend Nora Lefurgey, and less-studied novels such as Magic for Marigold and The Blue Castle. Dividing the chapters into five sections -- on masculinities and femininities, domestic space, humour, intertexts, and being in time -- L.M. Montgomery and Gender addresses the degree to which Montgomery's work engages and exposes, reflects and challenges the gender roles around her, underscoring how her writing has shaped future representations of gender. Of interest to historians, feminists, gender scholars, scholars of literature, and Montgomery enthusiasts, this wide-ranging collection builds on the depth of current scholarship in its approach to the complexity of gender in the works of one of Canada's best-loved authors."-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
E. Holly Pike is associate professor in the English program at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University. Laura M. Robinson is dean of arts and professor of English and theatre, cross-appointed women's and gender studies at Acadia University |
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Print version record |
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Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 fast |
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Sex role in literature.
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Femininity in literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian
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Femininity in literature
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Gender identity in literature
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Masculinity in literature
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Sex role in literature
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Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Pike, E. Holly (Elizabeth Holly), 1958- editor.
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Robinson, Laura M., 1966- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780228010166 |
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0228010160 |
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9780228010173 |
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0228010179 |
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