L.M. Montgomery and gender /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Pike, E. Holly (Elizabeth Holly), 1958- (Editor), Robinson, Laura M., 1966- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Montgomery, L. M. > (Lucy Maud), > 1874-1942 > Criticism and interpretation.
Montgomery, L. M. > (Lucy Maud), > 1874-1942
Sex role in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Féminité dans la littérature.
Masculinité dans la littérature.
Identité de genre dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian
Femininity in literature
Gender identity in literature
Masculinity in literature
Sex role in literature
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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