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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Lefebvre, Benjamin,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)

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. Edited by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, it traces milestones and turning points such as adaptations for stage and screen, posthumous publications, and the development of Montgomery Studies as a scholarly field. Lefebvre's introduction also considers Montgomery's publishing history in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom at a time when her work remained in print not because it was considered part of a university canon of literature, but simply due to the continued interest of readers.The twenty samples of Montgomery scholarship included in this volume broach topics such as gender and genre, narrative strategies in fiction and life writing, translation, and Montgomery's archival papers. They reflect shifts in Montgomery's critical reputation decade by decade: the 1960s, when a milestone chapter on Montgomery coincided with a second wave of texts seeking to create a canon of Canadian literature; the 1970s, in the midst of a sustained reassessment of popular fiction and of literature by women; the 1980s, when the publication of Montgomery's life writing, which coincided with the broadcast of critically acclaimed television productions adapted from her fiction, radically altered how readers perceived her and her work; the 1990s, when a conference series on Montgomery began to generate a sustained amount of scholarship; and the opening years of the twenty-first century, when the field of Montgomery Studies became both international and interdisciplinary.This is the first book to consider the posthumous life of one of Canada's most enduringly popular authors.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 "Defi nite 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 -- Bibliography -- Index