The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Two: A Critical Heritage
© 2014
Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.
The second volume, A Critical Heritage, narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery’s critical reputation in the years since her death. 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. The 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.
Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader is accompanied by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre that traces the interplay between the author and the critic, as well as between the private and the public Montgomery.
Product Details
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- Page Count: 464 pages
- Dimensions: 6.0in x 1.3in x 9.0in
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Reviews
‘Lefebvre’s archival research is thorough and often brilliant, making the Reader an invaluable trove not only for Montgomery scholars but also for those working with the reception history of Canadian writers.’
Anne Furlong
University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015“Both scholars and devoted readers of this complex Canadian author will find it fascinating.”
Barbara L. Talcroft
Children's Literature LLC
“Benjamin Lefebvre is a key figure in the field of ‘Montgomery studies,’ with a keen eye to the ‘pop-cult’ aspects of Montgomery’s reputation and readership. His encyclopaedic knowledge of Montgomery and her works is evident in the knowledgeable and readable introduction, the annotations, and the useful headnotes that contextualize each selection.”
Heather Murray, Department of English, University of Toronto“The L.M. Montgomery Reader, volume 2, presents a generous selection of material, judiciously chosen and clearly organized. The essays included cover an excellent range of primary texts, critical approaches, and eras.”
Faye Hammill, Professor of English, University of Strathclyde -
Author Information
Benjamin Lefebvre, editor of The L.M. Montgomery Library, is director of L.M. Montgomery Online. His publications include an edition of Montgomery’s rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted, and the three-volume critical anthology The L.M. Montgomery Reader, which won the 2016 PROSE Award for Literature from the Association of American Publishers. -
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: A Critical Heritage
BENJAMIN LEFEBVREA Note on the Text
1. Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874–1942 (1966)
ELIZABETH WATERSTON2. The Fair World of L.M. Montgomery (1973)
HELEN PORTER3. Anne of Green Gables and the Regional Idyll (1983)
T.D. MACLULICH4. Little Orphan Mary: Anne’s Hoydenish Double (1989)
>ROSAMOND BAILEY5. Subverting the Trite: L.M. Montgomery’s “Room of Her Own” (1992)
MARY RUBIO6. Women’s Oral Narrative Traditions as Depicted in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Fiction, 1918–1939 (1993)
DIANE TYE7. L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside: Intention, Inclusion, Implosion (1994)
OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS8. Decoding L.M. Montgomery’s Journals / Encoding a Critical Practice for Women’s Private Literature (1994)
HELEN M. BUSS9. “Fitted to Earn Her Own Living”: Figures of the New Woman in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery (1995)
CAROLE GERSON10. “Pruned Down and Branched Out”: Embracing Contradiction in Anne of Green Gables (1995)
LAURA M. ROBINSON11. Finding L.M. Montgomery’s Short Stories (1995)
REA WILMSHURST12. L.M. Montgomery’s Manuscript Revisions (1995)
ELIZABETH EPPERLY13. “My Secret Garden”: Dis/Pleasure in L.M. Montgomery and F.P. Grove (1999)
IRENE GAMMEL14. Writing with a “Definite Purpose”: L.M. Montgomery, Nellie L. McClung and the Politics of Imperial Motherhood in Fiction for Children (2000)
CECILY DEVEREUX15. Kinship and Nation in Amelia (1848) and Anne of Green Gables (1908) (2002)
MONIQUE DULL16. The Maud Squad (2002)
CYNTHIA BROUSE17. “The Golden Road of Youth”: L.M. Montgomery and British Children’s Books (2004)
JENNIFER H. LITSTER18. Women at War: L.M. Montgomery, the Great War, and Canadian Cultural Memory (2008)
ANDREA MCKENZIE19. Anne of Green Gables / Akage no An: The Flowers of Quiet Happiness (2008)
EMILY AOIFE SOMERS20. Archival Adventures with L.M. Montgomery; or, “As Long as the Leaves Hold Together” (2012)
VANESSA BROWN AND BENJAMIN LEFEBVRESources
Bibliography
Index
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Prizes
PROSE Award for Literature awarded by Association of American Publishers - Winner in 2016 -
Subjects and Courses